School: Ballysadare (B.) (roll number 7410)
- Location:
- Ballysadare, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Sitric
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- (continued from previous page)her would she be his wife and she consented.Sometime after, three sons were born to them. One day there was a fair in the vicinity and the farmer went to it.In the meantime when his wife was cleaning the kitchen the comb fell down from the thatch of the house and the mermaid got an idea that she would like to visit the sea again. She went out to the hay stack and got her seaskin. She told her three sons to go into a field but no sooner had they done so then they were changed into three large rocks.In the evening when the farmer came home he found the house deserted so he went in search of his wife and children but on his way he was drowned in a well and so ended the relations between land and sea.
- Collector
- T. Neary
- Informant
- James Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Sligo