School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Farelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)Sean set to work and used them and in a short time he was very rich. He found out that the lepreachan did not play trick on him about the gold.
- There is supposed to be a mermaid in Mullagh lake. There was a girl living between Mullagh and Virginia. One day as she was walking along the shores of the lake she was pulled under the water by a mermaid.
A mermaid is a creature in which the upper part of her is a human being and the lower part a fish. When she was a few days from home her people began to be worried.
After a while she appeared to the brother that and told him that every night she and the big mermaid comes up out of the water and walks round but there is a few others always around her afraid she would go away.
She told him to go down to the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Madge Hanratty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Frank Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
