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School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)

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Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Kathleen Grehan
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    “This Happened About 40 Years Ago.”

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    That night she appeared to him in his bedroom and told him that if he took the spear out of her head she would give him anything he would wish for. Owen wished that the name of a Kenna would never be drowned in the lake. Then the mermaid disappeared.
    Michael Carey
    Dalystown
    Mullingar
    Told by Joseph Mc Cormack
    Cumminstown
    Ballinagore
    Co. Westmeath.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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