School: Coratillon
- Location:
- Corratillan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael O' Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)occupation is making shoes, and he sits under a mushroom making them. He is called a fairy shoemaker.
- 4th Story.There is supposed to be a mermaid in Bunerky Lake. There is a story told of a man from this district, who saw a mermaid one evening combing her hair and he asked her to marry him. She told him she would, but that she would have to hide her comb, and if he ever got it she would have to turn into a mermaid again and go back to the water. She went home with him and hid her comb in the rafters of an outhouse. One day, the man got the comb, and when he went into the house she was gone.
- The is a town in this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muineal, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr M. Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muineal, Co. Cavan