School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- Once upon a time it is said that there was an old woman in Patrick Trainor's lough. She had a woman's head and shoulders and a fish's body.
It has only been seen once in a generation. She came out on the bank trailing a child after her by means of a chain round its neck. She ran after Mick Trainor, and when she knew she couldn't get a hold of him she said "Wait I have lozenges for you". No attempts have been made to capture her.
Long before she was heard tell of a man named Vickby drowned himself in it. One morning after he got his breakfast he went to a neighbour's house and asked a lad to take in a bag of turf from the bog. When he got to the lough he spread the bag on the water and lay down on the bag and sank to the bottom.
- Collector
- Mary Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clontycasta, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Bernard Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Clontycasta, Co. Monaghan
