School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)to be drowned the Mermaid always appears beforehand. If anybody should se her it is a sign of a drowning, or a person being taken away. They never take away an ugly person, always a good-looking person.
When a person is going to be drowned the sky all darkens so that you can scarcely see anything. Then everybody knows there is a drowning. This was proved to be true in olden days.
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to be drowned the Mermaid always appears beforehand. If anybody should see her it is a sign of a drowning, or a person being taken away. They never take away an ugly person, always a good-looking person.
When a person is going to be drowned the sky all darkens so that you can scarcely see anything. Then everybody knows there is a drowning. This was proved to be true in olden days.
Madge Conlon
KnockadalteenThere was a Leipreachán living in my district years and years ago. He was very small and dressed in blue. He lived in a garden covered with elder bushes. Here, he cobbled(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Kilcoyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnaglass, Co. Sligo
