School: Cill Chaoi
- Location:
- Kilkee, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Anraoi Ó Cathaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 224
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- (continued from previous page)the tide got rough and he could not come in. That night the people lit fires to give him courage. He shouted back to them that if he would live till morning he would have a strange story to tell them but when the morning came he was n't to be found.
It is very noticable that all sea-birds rise out of the island before midnight.
- There was a man living in Ross long ago. One night when he was fishing a mermaid got entangled in his net. He took her home with him. He threw her cloak up in the loft with the nets. One day as he was throwing down nets he threw down the cloak. She snapped it up and ran out the door. He never saw her afterwards.(continues on next page)
