School: Loughagar (roll number 5696)
- Location:
- Loughagar More, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Énrí Mac an Abba
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 428
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“There was a man going home from Ceilvohe one night...”
(continued from previous page)Hura" and with that he was left on the ground and it took him several days to get home again.
Storyteller: see page 58.
It is aid that anyone drinks the water out of Cloughan well is supposed to come back after death.
- The Banshee always follows any people whose name begins with Mac or O. My mother's name was O'Neill before she was married and the Banshee always cries before any of the family dies. When my father died, my uncle who is staying in Dublin heard the Banshee crying outside the shop-door.
One night when a girl from Rath-connell was coming home from visiting her sister, she heard the Banshee in Glennon's bog. The dog she had with her chased it. It ran out of the bog and up to the house of a women who was sick. The sick women died next day. - Informant
- Mrs J. Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Rathconnell, Co. Westmeath
