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School: Fieldstown, Drogheda (roll number 14462)

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Fieldstown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chléirigh
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    A fairy story 7.7.38
    Once there was a man and he cut down a lone bush. That night a beanshee followed him up the stairs crying. The man was afraid. The man went to the field with the lone bush and he put sods round it and in a few days afterwards.
    This story was told to me by my mother.
    Ann Jane Winters, Fieldstown Parish, Co. Louth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ann Jane Winters
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Fieldstown, Co. Louth