School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)
- Location:
- Doochorran, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Mhic an Ríogh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)the walls being lined with seaweed and she spends her day swimming through the palaces and singing in her sweet silvery voice. At sunset she appeares above the water sitting on a rock and combing he long flaxen hair. She is also seen when a ship is about to sink or when a great calamity is approaching. Often when a ship is out at sea the people who are on board hear lovely music and when the crew steers in the direction from whence the music comes the ship strikes against a rock and all the occupants are lost. Mermaids live to be five hundred years of age. They have no soul and when they died they become the white foam which we so often see on the crest of a wave.
- Collector
- Kathleen P. Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghavilla, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Miss Tiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keenheen, Co. Leitrim
