School: Urbal (roll number 13874)
- Location:
- An tIorball, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Gerald Kelliher
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- (continued from previous page)to "get under" the coffin and help to carry it to Fahey graveyard. When the interment was over the 'mourners' began to get ready refreshments. One man ( a great friend of John's while on this earth) told him not to taste either the food or the drink.Next morning, John found himself in Fahey bog, lying up to a turf bank with his coat and shoes beside him.
- There was once a woman who caught a leprechaun. She asked him to give her a pot of gold. He said he had no gold. "If you fo not give me the pot of gold," said she, "I will bring you home and put you in a chest." He would not consent. So she brought him home and put him in the chest and then locked it. She left him there for a four days. One day, as she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire na hAbhna, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- John Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Doire na hAbhna, Co. Liatroma