cluricaunen.

1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 162 The Cluricaune of the southern counties of Ireland appears to be the same as the Leprechan of Leinster; and both words are probably provincialisms of Luacharma'n, the Irish for a pigmy.

1889 W. B. Yeats Lett. to New Island (1934) 195 In Monaghan he [sc. the leprechaun] is called the cluricaune.

1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster xiv. 144 They called him the Cluricaun, he says, and he would do all the work of the house.

1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 284 Leprachaun: a sort of fairy, called by several names in different parts of Ireland:—luricaun, cluricaun, lurragadaun, loghryman, luprachaun.

1944 Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. 49 43 Kluracaun, klū'-ra-kawn, a tiny sprite found hiding among stones of a dry-stone fence; an undeveloped boy of mischievous disposition; a male of uncommonly low stature who fancies himself as a trickster or practical joker; any mischief-maker (sarcastic).

1959 D. A. MacManus Middle Kingdom ii. 48 Thus Ireland has her cluricauns, the small sprites who sit by the hob and look after, and even at times tidy, the kitchen by night.