School: Baile Nua an Fhaoitigh (roll number 9040)

Location:
Newtownwhite, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Éilís Ní Mharascáil
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 16

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 16

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Baile Nua an Fhaoitigh
  2. XML Page 16
  3. XML “The Banshee”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The banshee follows certain families before they die. The banshee crosses the fields and comes convenient to the place where the person is dying and gives a very mournful cry. She goes back the same direction as she comes.
    Once (a man) my great-grandfather caught the sheet from off the banshee. each night she came outside the door crying for the sheet. One night the man of the house stood inside the door and asked in the Irish tongue "Ce tá ag buaidhreadh ort." She said she wanted the sheet that she could not do without it. he put the sheet out the window with the fork and she left the track of her fingers in the prongs of the fork. Then he told her to go out to the rock in the midst of the sea (and) and she replied why don't you send me to a churchyard where I will have shelter.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. banshees (~369)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    William Jackson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Newtownwhite, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Margaret Gardiner
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtownwhite, Co. Mayo