School: Stuacán (roll number 14051)
- Location:
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 250
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- (continued from previous page)When they reached Bonniconlon he married her. They lived happily for many years and they had three children, two boys and a girl.
But, he had to keep the cloak forever out of her sight else she would go back again to the sea.
However, one day, he went to a fair in Enniscrone and before he went he hid the cloak in a stack of oats. She saw him and when he went to the fair she got the cloak and put it on her.
Then, taking her three children by the hands she set out for the sea. Her husband was just returning from the fair he saw her coming and he went between her and the sea.
Knowing that he could not stop her now he asked her to leave him the children, she refused and then turned them into stones, the stones are still to be seen near Scurmore and are known as "Children of the Mermaid." It is said that those stones bleed every seventh year.
- Collector
- Mary Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs M. Jordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathomisk, Co. Mayo
