School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lisgarode, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 279
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- A Bean SidheA few years ago a lived in Beechwood. One day as he was walking along the road and he found a comb. The man kept the comb and that very night late he heard something knocking at the window. He did not mind as it was a windy night and he thought it was the wind shaking the window. At last he went to sleep.The next night he was below in his kitchen when he heard someone knocking his bed about in the room. He went into the bed-room and found the bed knocked on the floor but he could not see anyone and he wondered who had knocked the bed upside down on the floor, but he soon knew the cause.That night he went into his bed as usual. Soon he heard somebody crying at the window. It was the "Bean Sidhe". Then he went over to the window and saw a white woman who asked him for the comb.He got very frightened and got the comb. He was handling the comb when he saw her hand was on fire. He was afraid then because he thought his hand(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O Meara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickaneagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Grange Upper, Co. Tipperary
