School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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- In former times people in this district had more belief in fairies and leprechauns than they have nowadays. It was believed that a leprechaun was a wee man about six inches high and worked as a cobbler for the fairies. He sits on a mushroom in fine weather andd sits under it when it is raining.
My father told me this story. One evening at dusk my grandfather was out in a field when suddenly he saw a leprechaun making a shoe. He stole (up) on him and caught him. (The leprechaun promised he would not but when my)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gretta Sargent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farrow, Co. Westmeath