School: Áth an Lín (C.), Baile an Gharrdha (roll number 9633)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Nic an Aodhaire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0490, Page 055
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- (continued from previous page)he threw down the cap by mistake. She picked it up and for the first time during her stay she spoke and said that a man of his name would never be drowned from the heads of Kerry to Limerick. During her stay she laughed three times. Once when she was the woman of the house throw the egg water into the ashes, the second occasion was, when she saw the woman comb her hair on Friday, and the third when she got the chance to pick up her cap. She ran away to where the man found her combing her hair and when her companion mermaids saw her they said she surely gave the secret of the egg water. She answered(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Airey
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Aughalin, Co. Limerick
