School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.) (roll number 13631)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)day and begin frying rashers and eggs and when the mermaid smells them frying she will come in on the shore and when you catch her and don't let her go until she gets back your wife."So the prince when home and told the king what he heard and the king told him to go down to the shore and do as he was told. The next morning he went down and began frying rashers and eggs and he kept watching for the mermaid. And he saw her coming in out far and she was sniffing and sniffing.As she came in on the bank he ran over to her and tried to catch her, she caught him and pulled him in after her. When the king came down to the shore to look for the prince he saw the prince gone too when he saw this he did not know what to do. Day after day he used to go down to the shore to see(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Desmond Hopkins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocklehaugh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr John Hopkins
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocklehaugh, Co. Mayo
