School: Doirín Árd, Béal Átha an Dá Chab (roll number 15969)
- Location:
- Cappagh More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dubhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 091
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- (continued from previous page)The tiles they used have was a tough sod dug on the hillside.The chimney also made of straw held with spats made of wild twigs. The flue was also made of woven wild twig.The parlour was their principal bed-room. The kitchen was often used to give a night's lodging to a horse and sometimes a cow. And the flower-garden was the manure pit.
- The people say the banshee only follows the Macs and the O's names. It is said she cries right out side these people's doors when any one of them is going to die.
This is a story about a widow who heard the banshee. She lived in the middle of a lonesome hill in a very bad house, one window and a bed in the middle of the house and a fire at the end of a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Anna O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybane West, Co. Cork
- Informant
- neighbours
