School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)he used be preaching and saying that she was a witch. This day he went some where with his horse's and the horse's leg got broken, it is said that it was Biddy did it. So when he was coming home that night Biddy came out to him and asked "could he settle the horse's leg" and he said he couldn't, and she said "after all his talk he could not settle the horse's leg, so she settled it for him, and he never preached about her anymore.
- On the sea there lives a fish with the head of a woman and the tail of a fish, and she is called a Mermaid. When the tide is gone out she is seen sitting on a rock combing her hair with a green comb. She is very lucky to have(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Christopher Fennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Smith
- Address
- Cloghera, Co. Clare
