School: Cill Cúlach
- Location:
- Kilcooly, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0223
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“One time there lived in Shangarry a woman named Ann Maloney”
(continued from previous page)further, they looked around and saw another piece of her dress on a hawthorn bush. This was their guide until they came about ten yards of the old fort. They saw her lying on the ground unconscious, and they brought her home. After three days she revived, and spoke those few lines :-
"For everything spoken
Or acted untrue;
For promises broken
And broken anew;"
She lived for two unhappy years. It is said that the fairies brought her to the fort in revenge for breakin her promise. When she died, it is said that she was seen and heard (round) lamenting and sobbing around her house.