School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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- The lepreachan is a very small being. He is about six inches in height. He stays in a fort in the daytime and comes out at night. His chief work is mending boots. He sits under a mushroom and he has a "last" and a little hammer. While he is mending the boots he has a frog to keep watch on top of the mushroom. One day a man was out in a field where botherlans grew, he say a a lefreachan under one of them. He caught him and kept looking at him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Peter Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan