School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)to pass over the fence. A neighbouring man was coming towards her house. He was watching the children playing. He saw a woman dressed in black. She wore a shawl on her head. She went up the steps to the little girl. When she was going up the last step she put her hand on the little girl's shoulder. The little girl seemed not to notice her. The woman passed away down the fields. The man thought she was a dummy that was living near by. She sick about three or four days after. The man inquired of the children was that the dummy that passed them. They said they saw no woman. They asked the little girl did she see any woman. She said she did not. She died shortly after.
- Collector
- Mary Shea
- Gender
- Female
