School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bríghid, Bean Uí Mhacháin
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- There is a leipreachan in the Fair green, Athboy. The name is not known. He is about a foot and a half high. He wears a red hat going up into a point, a green coat, and shoes curling up at the top. He lives up in the trees. His usual occupation is mending boots. He always has a jug by his side.
A man named John Castles is said to have caught the leipreachan but he told him to look around and when he looked back again it was gone.
Some of them are(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Brown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath