School: Sailcheartáin (Sillahetane), Dúnmaonmhuighe
- Location:
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íte Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0304, Page 078
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- There was a family of O'Reilly living at Dunmanus Bay, & in the family there were three sons; one of them went to sea & after some years, he married a Spanish girl.
They came to Ireland & settled down in the old homestead; he behaved so cruelly to his wife, that she left him & everybody thought she had drowned herself.
Some months after this, a mermaid appeared on the sea-shore right in front of O'Reilly's house, & this mermaid turned out to be the Spanish girl who had run away from her husband.
She pronounced a curse on the O'Reilly family & said never again would there be three men of the O'Reilly's on that land.
That happened a great number of years ago & there never have been three O'Reilly men together there since.
- Collector
- H. Clarke
- Address
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- J. Ross
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolkellure, Co. Cork
