School: Ovens (C.) (roll number 5985)
- Location:
- Ovens, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Maud Mc Guire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 379
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- (continued from previous page)school friends heard the Banshee one day at play hour.
They were playing in a wood near the school when they heard a long drawn out keening cry. They were almost too scared to move from the spot, for the crying seemed to echo along the adjoining road. However hearing the school bell, they plucked up courage & ran back into school. Ten minutes later a funeral procession passed by bearing the remains of a man named McSwiney to Kilcrea graveyard.
The girls were then fully convinced that they had heard the Banshee's wail, for it is locally believed that the Banshee laments the death of an "O" or a "Mac".
- Collector
- Mary Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Castleinch, Co. Cork
- Collector
- Nora Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Clashanaffrin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs T. Hegarty
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Castleinch, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mary Mc Carthy
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 19
- Address
- Clashanaffrin, Co. Cork
