School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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- The mermaid is a being who dwells in the sea. She has a fishes' body and a woman's head. She appears on the rocks and com bs her hai r when a ship is going to be lost, and she also ap pears when a person si going to be drowned If she can she lets no one see her, but when she sees a person looking at her she dives to the bottom of the se aThe mermaid is supposed to be a person who was saved from being drowned by the fairies and, they gave her power to live in the water.
- Collector
- Dominick Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Collinsford, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Tom Coggins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lislahelly, Co. Sligo