Young Storykeeper Volume III

36 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE SEVEN | 37
THE MERMAID AT THE LIGHTHOUSE
THE SHIPPYS’ LIGHTHOUSE
CALIN AND HIS LIGHTHOUSE
A long time ago there was a blue and red lighthouse. A man
lived in the lighthouse. He had a wife and a daughter, and her
name was Lyla Rose.
The lighthouse was on a rocky island.
One night, Lyla heard a noise! It was a singing sound.
She walked down the three hundred steps to get to the door.
She was tired and scared. Lyla looked out of the door.
She saw a girl, but it was not an ORDINARY girl. She
had a fish tail. She had purple, pink and brown hair. She had
a tiara.
She was a mermaid!
The mermaid was so surprised. She dived into the
ocean!
Lyla went after her. But she tripped and
slid into the water. The mermaid looked up and
found Lyla drowning. She swam as fast as
lightening to the surface with Lyla.
Once Lyla was dry and safe on
land, she asked the mermaid what was her
name. “My name is Princess Seashell.”
Lyla asked Seashell if she wanted
to be friends.
Seashell said “Yes” so Lyla and
Seashell lived happily ever
after!
Co
Alison Cabello
Dublin
In the cleanest lighthouse in Ireland there
lived a man named Mr Shippy and his wife
named Mrs Shippy. Usually it was peaceful
in their humble lighthouse, but not today.
The huge light that warned ships about
the enormous and dangerous cliffs around
Aranmore in County Donegal was broken.
Mr Shippy was very worried. There was
a storm due that night. Storm Tara was going
to be wild. Mrs Shippy was doing her best
to calm Mr Shippy down, but it was no use.
She made him a cup of hot tea and some of
her homemade chocolate chip cookies, but
it was impossible to settle him.
“What are we going to do? There have
been boats heading out to sea all week that
are due back tonight,” Mr Shippy cried.
Mrs Shippy said, “There is nothing you
can do, Dónal. You have tried your best to fix
that old light. We will just have to pray and
hope for the best.”
Before Mr and Mrs Shippy lay down to
sleep, they prayed for the poor sailors out on
the Atlantic Ocean that night.
In the middle of the night, Mr and Mrs
Shippy could hear whooshing and splashing.
One minute later Mr and Mrs Shippy heard
a loud bang.
“Oh, dear me! What was that, Brigid?”
Mr Shippy shouted.
Mr Shippy ran down the winding stairs,
grabbed a torch and threw open the front
door. He slowly climbed down the rocky
path towards the small beach below. The
first thing he saw was a fishing boat up on a
rock. He ran over and got onboard the boat.
He saw two men. One man had a bleeding
leg and the other had a small cut on his face.
Mr Shippy realised that this man with the
cut on his face was Bob O’Brien. The other
man was Seamus O’Malley. He couldn’t
speak as he had been knocked out.
Mr Shippy helped Bob to lift Seamus
off the boat and up to the lighthouse where
Seamus slowly came round. Mrs Shippy
made them all a hot drink and gave them
blankets. Mrs Shippy made up some beds
for the two fishermen and said that they
would have to stay the night as it was a long
way to the village.
In the morning Mr Shippy took the
two men to the village in his cart and their
families were so relieved to see them both
well. Bob’s little son, James came running
towards them and ran into his daddy’s arms.
Mr and Mrs Shippy were seen as local heroes
and lived happily in their humble home for
the rest of their lives.
And what about that broken light on the
lighthouse? The villagers made sure that it
was fixed that very same day.
Eimear Donnelly
Co Armagh
Once there was a man called Calin and he worked as
a lighthouse keeper for over fifty years. Calin enjoyed
working as a lighthouse keeper like all of his family
before him. But his real passion was magic.
So Calin performed magic at children’s parties.
One day, when he was practicing a sword swallowing
act beside his lighthouse when a sudden wave took
him off his feet and shoved the sword down his throat.
When he was recovering, Calin met a lady and
they had twins named Finn and Nuala. They played
with jumping clay all the time.
In the 17th century, a war came and the lighthouse
was forced to close down. One year later they got an
award for the oldest lighthouse in the world.
Elliot McKeating
Co Antrim
THE THREE MERMAIDS AND THE
LIGHTHOUSE
Once upon a time, there were three mermaids. Their
names were Sera, Mia and Waves. They were the
best of friends. They lived in Meraway Cove. One
day, when the girls were out swimming, they found a
lighthouse with a secret tunnel leading to it.
The swam into the tunnel, but the door got stuck.
The mermaids were very afraid. Just then, a kind
lighthouse keeper called Tom heard them crying and
helped them to get free. The mermaids were so happy.
“Thank you!” they said and swam home together.
Aoibh Sheridan
Co Dublin