School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 031
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- (continued from previous page)pot of gold. The leipreachan pointed his finger towards a bush and as soon as the man took his eyes off him, the leipreachan had mysteriously vanished and the poor heart-broken man was left alone in the moonlight.
About fifty years ago it was said that a beautiful mermaid was to be seen on the shores of "Behy Lake." When the golden sun was sinking in his bed of multi-coloured clouds in the west, she would come forth from her home in the lake and perch herself on the summit of a huge rock. There she would sit for hours combing her long curly, golden hair or caoining mournfully until the dark curtain of night fell over the landscape. Old people say that she only appears on land, before a drowning, and that she was like an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Drury
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr P. Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Roscommon
