School: Ráithíní (Rehins)
- Location:
- Na Rathanna, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Longáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 88
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An Old Story (continued)
“About fifty years there at Carra a rich chieftin named O'Dowd of Ardnaree.”
(continued from previous page)father was looking at the cloak when one of the boys spied him. This boy immediately told his mother what he had seen.
On hearing the news the mermaid, filled with anger, took her children to the seashore and turned them into three stones. She herself went back to the sea. The three stones are still to be seen at Enniscrone.
From that day onward there was never known to be an O'Dowd living in Ardnaree for there is supposed to be a curse left on them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Gaughran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal an Átha, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- James Convey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal an Átha, Co. Mhaigh Eo