School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 230
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- Mermaids are supposed to be half woman and half a fish and they have gills like a fish which enables them to swim under the sea. They are supposed to have the loveliest of pearl gardens under the sea and they work very hard to keep them tidy. They have sea horses also which help them to travel from one garden to another. They have a king who is said gives a prize of a well trained sea horse at certain times to which ever of the mermaids has the nicest sea garden.
- Collector
- Eileen Donelan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Templemoyle, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Donelan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Templemoyle, Co. Galway
- There is an old ruin in Tamplemoyle graveyard which was to be a chapel long ago but it was not finished. In the part of this old chapel(continues on next page)
