School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 06_050
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- There is a story told about a man who lived near the sea at Westport some years ago.
One evening he was walking along by the sea shore and he came upon a beautiful woman that was sitting on a rock combing her hair, she had a hair net behind her on the rock. The man went up and stole the hair net. But the merry-maid saw him and she ran after him to where he lived. She followed him into the house, and he threw it up on a loft.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 32
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
