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Mermaids

Abstract: Story collected by a student at Eidhneach school (Inagh, Co. Clare) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 0611/2/33

 Eidhneach [Vol. 0611, Chapter 0002]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Clare Schools

Story text

transcribed at

 

Mermaids  [duchas:5157496]

235

There is a mermaid in the Clounmacon Lake and the people saw her sitting on the shore of the lake combing her hair. When she say them (then) she went into the lake. There was a noise heard in the lake about thirty years ago and it lasted for a day and night. 

Leperechauns-:
A Leperechaun is a very small man wearing red clothes. One night Michael Barry was going to a fair in Ennistymon and he saw a small man dressed in red a near the pumn [?]. He spoke to him and he never answered him and he saw a big fire in Peylon's bad and then he disappeared. 
The Mullins saw a leperechaun last year and he was dressed in red and he was walking across

Resource description

Origin information
Inagh, Co. Clare
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 235
Volume 0611
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Sr Mac Gearachaigh.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Mermaids   linked data (lcsh)
Mermaids--Murúcha
School location
Inagh Eidhneach Inagh Inchiquin Clare
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5202432
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0611/2/33

Suggested credit
"Mermaids"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5202432>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Sr Mac Gearachaigh.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

School location

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