School: Cill Condae
- Location:
- Kilcounty, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ríoghbhardáin
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- (continued from previous page)step he took the hound got before him and knocked him.
When the man got to the door of his own house he fell in a faint. The people of the neighbourhood think that a rath on the lands of a neighbouring farmer is responsible for these strange happenings.
- That lonely cry commonly known as the "Banshee", is frequently heard in this district. I heard it twice myself, and it is a very sad, far-away cry. Once I was walking with my sister and I heard the "caoining" going along the glen and straight to the Dangan graveyard.
A man in the neighbourhood also heard it and he said that it was a child's cry, and I believe that he was right, because the man who died had buried a child some months before.
When I heard that weird cry the second time I knew from the first sound what it was.
I was in bed, and asleep, when I was suddenly awakened(continues on next page) - Collector
- Veronica Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Ballyre, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Ballyre, Co. Cork
