School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)
- Location:
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Floinn
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“Long, long ago there lived a family in the country in which there were two boys and three girls...”
Long, long ago there lived a family in the country in which there were two boys and three girls.
One night they stayed up very late telling ghost stories because their mother and father were out. All of a sudden they heard noise out in the garden. The elder boy looked out the sky-light window and he saw the Banshee in the garden diging the potatoes. The boy got such a fright that he fell in a faint. At the same time the light went out and they were lelft in the dark till their mother and father came in
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“The old people believed that if you cut a cloth 12 inches long...”
The old people believed that if you cut a cloth 12 inches long and left it out on the line on St Bridges night the next morning it would be longer or shorter. If it got loner you(continues on next page) - Collector
- Billy Moloney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Cavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary