School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)sinking. In the other side there are little pieces of strings along the net called squinces, and these squinces are stones to sink the net. The herring generally always goes to-gether in shoals.
The best place for net fishing is at Ganive near Callerus and Béal-Cáig outside Hillah. Béal-Cáig is a very lonesum place. My Grandfather was often made lonesum at Béal-Cáig. He used to hear anchors haul and whisling near him, and could not see nothing. He used to pull up his own anchor and clear home.
One night he saw a man lifting up his head, pull it down again. It is said that he looked p to see what way the wind was.(continues on next page)
