School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)hear him knock at the door.
At last they got up, and his mother opened the door, to see where did he go. There she found him nearly dead, he said that a (mo) woman in black followed him, and beat him.
He told them also, he was screaming at the door, but they did not hear him, and they were listening.
He went to bed, and never left it, until he died. The night of his wake, the woman in black came again, and they all ran here and there.
The corpse raised up in the table and said "Mother don't sigh." and died back again.
Mary Hickey
Gortnaglogh, Firies.
Age 13 year
- Collector
- Mary Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Gortnaglogh, Co. Kerry
