School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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- XML “A Local Happening - Fairies and Fishing”
- XML “The Local Herring Fishing”
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- The Local Herring FisheryPossibly 100 years ago fishing was a great industry at Pullindiva. At this time 8 or 10 boats would go out fishing in the morning and on their return at evening the boats would be overloaded with fish. At this time also an old custom was that each fisherman should give the priest a herring. At the time there was in Templeboy a suspected priest Fr - and when the fishermen gained the pier each man offered a fish to this priest but Harry C_ taking his fish struck the priest with it. The priest lifting a stone cast it into the water saying a the same time that while that stone remained in the water no more herring should be got(continues on next page)