School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Ráth Chormaic, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 061
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- There were old hags long ago, and their names were Ellen Gargan who lived in Ballyglass, and Kitty Calway who lived in "Bail na h-abhainn", and Biddy Meenan who lived in "Bail na Breothain".
The people were afraid of them, because every where they went, they carried a broom with them, and any person they might see they used to hit them.
They were kind of witches, and they could fly on the brooms.
- Mermaids are lovely girls dressed in green and long golden hair. She was often seen combing her golden hair on a rock. Leipreachans sometimes marry mermaids, because of their beauty.
She can swim and has a tail like a fish. She cannot talk, but she can make signs with her hands, and some people understand her. - Collector
- Mary Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
