_Parallels._--Dr. Hyde refers to two short stories, "Midnight Ride" (to Rome) and "Stolen Bride," in Lady Wilde's _Ancient Legends_. But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale of "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady," reprinted in Mr. Yeats' _Irish Folk and Fairy Tales_, 52-9. In the _Hibernian Tales_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as reported by Thackeray in the _Irish Sketch-Book_, c., xvi., begins like "Guleesh."
_Source._--T. Crofton Croker's _Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland_, ed. Wright, pp. 135-9. In the original the gnome is a Cluricaune, but as a friend of Mr. Batten's has recently heard the tale told of a Lepracaun, I have adopted the better known title.
_Remarks._--_Lepracaun_ is from the Irish _leith bhrogan_, the one shoemaker (_cf._ brogue), according to Dr. Hyde. He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe, _cf._ Croker's story, "Little Shoe," _l. c._ pp. 142-4. According to a writer in the _Revue Celtique_, i., 256, the true etymology is _luchor pan_, "little man." Dr. Joyce also gives the same etymology in _Irish Names and Places_, i., 183, where he mentions several places named after them.
_Source._--Lady Wilde's _Ancient Legends_, the first story.
_Parallels._--A similar version was given by Mr. D. Fitzgerald in the _Revue Celtique_, iv., 181, but without the significant and impressive horns. He refers to _Cornhill_ for February, 1877, and to Campbell's "Sauntraigh," No. xxii., _Pop. Tales_, ii., 52-4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle and returns it with flesh in it, but at last the woman refuses, and is persecuted by the fairy. I fail to see much analogy. A much closer one is in Campbell, ii., p. 63, where fairies are got rid of by shouting, "Dunveilg is on fire." The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children at home," will occur to English minds. Another version in Kennedy's _Legendary Fictions_, p. 164, "Black Stairs on Fire."
_Remarks._--Slievenamon is a famous fairy palace in Tipperary according to Dr. Joyce, _l. c._ i., 178. It was the hill on which Finn stood when he gave himself as the prize to the Irish maiden who should run up it quickest. Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ought to know (Kennedy, _Legend Fict._, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife").