You will find this strange shape in the ground right beside the school. Can you guess what it is? It is a fairy mound or, as we call it on The Heath, a fairy ring. According to tradition, troops of fairies lived underneath these mounds. Fairies were supposed to have the gift of healing, which they could pass on to humans. A leprechaun, incidentally, is a bad-tempered fairy. He carries a crock of gold and, if you can catch him, you can keep the gold. We have never seen one, but he is visible to some American tourists. The word 'leprechaun' comes from lugh meaning 'small' and corpán, which means 'body'.