Creideamh faoi Rónta /
Belief about Seals
Informant: Robert Donegan
Age: 56
Address: Ballintoy, Co. Antrim
Collector: Michael J. Murphy, National Folklore Collection, UCD
Date of Recording: November 1955
Reference:

NFC 1413: 136

Cottages of Hugh and Albert O'Rourke, The Port, Ballintoy, 1956. [Michael J. Murphy, National Folklore Collection, UCD]

Creideamh faoi Rónta

Is i mBéarla atá an buntéacs.

Belief about Seals

Old people used to believe that the seals were the spirits of drowned seamen.