School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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“There is the remains of an old house in Mr James Waldron's land, Devlis, Ballyhaunis, and in this house there lived a very old woman that used to change herself into a hare and suck the milk of the cows in the fields near her and the people thought it ver”
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“One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past eleven, he was saw a light at Devlis.”
One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past evelven, he saw a light at Devlis When he reached the spot he found he was at the hill of Lisheen. He heard a noise inside the fence and as he looked he saw a woman coming towards him, dressed in nurses clothes.
The man kept going and the nurse passed him by, and a motorcar was just coming.
As it was drawing near the nurse went in through the bushes and vanished.
The car belonged to Mr John Lyons(continues on next page)