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School: Gníomh go Leith (C.) (roll number 3686)

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Gneevgullia, Co. Kerry
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Máire, Bean Uí Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0451, Page 270

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  1. The Spirit of Bealnadeega

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    About the year eighteen hundred a spirit was supposed to haunt Beál na deega near Barraduff. There was a wonderfully strong man and an athlete living in the district named Darby O Riordan. He was going the way one night and was attacked by the spirit. He succeeded in repulsing her and made his way home. But this did not end the matter. She waylaid him again and again. He was returning one night from a wake with two other men. She attacked him and kept fighting him for three miles of the road and was unseen by the other two men. Within a quarter of a mile of his own house the other two men turned down a cross roads to their homes. They forced him to come with them but he refused. In the morning he was found dead about a field from his own house. Bealnadeega after this was shunned by all and the Spirit became a byeword of terror in the district. It is said she was finally banished
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hanna O Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Julie O Connor
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female