School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 078
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- Thousands of years ago a young pair whose names were Peter McNally and Marry Anne Cox were to be married. They were very affectionate to one another. Just before the wedding the intended bridegroom went and married another girl greatly to the grief of Marry Anne. She took it so badly that she said she would cry after every one of Peter's friends.
That was the origin of the banshee so from generation up to the present day the banshee cries its [plantive?] after a death in certain families. The Cox family spread so much that they cried for anyone related to them. Then the banshee cried if a descendant of the McNally family died, and generation after generation through intermarriage the descendants of that family are known by other names.
- Collector
- Teresa Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edercloon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Charles Shaw
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloonageeher, Co. Longford
