School: Árd Phádraig
- Location:
- Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 227
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- (continued from previous page)the girl met was a banshee, and it was she who was supposed to have taken the child.
- One night as my grand-father and a man were watching a mare in one of John Mac Donalds fields, in the townland of Fanningstown, they heard a noise going through the bushes.
They came to the ditch, where the noise came from, but it was at the other side near the road that the noise then was.
When they came out on the road the headless coach passed by. The horses had no heads and the men who were(continues on next page) - Collector
- Dan Meskill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toor, Co. Limerick
