Mermaids

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Mermaids  [duchas:5157495]

Mermaids

A mermaid is half a fish and half a woman. She is seen sitting on the rocks at the shore of a lake and she is always combing her hair. She wears a net and if you stole it from her you would get gold hidden. There was a mermaid in the "Newhall Lake" a few miles from Ennis. She used to come from the shores and steal the wine that was in the church. One day a man watched her by the name of O'Donnell and he shot her and she cursed them that their race would be left Newhall before a year and the lake changes into blood every seven years. 

Nellie Duggan 
Information by -: P. Malloney
Ballybeg
Inagh