School: Ballyvelaghan, Burren (roll number 7705)
- Location:
- Ballyvelaghan, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dheaghaigh
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(continued from previous page)he wanted cigarettes he asked his mother for them, but she always refused him and said "Where will the money be got"? The boy did without the cigarettes. One night the boy was splaying cards in a neighbouring house, and as he was coming home about eleven o clock he passed an old fort. He saw a great deal of small folk sitting around the fort and his mother in the middle. He ran home as fast a lightning and his mother was there before him and her hair was really white not as it was before. Three weeks afterwards his mother died and the people who waked her said they saw the window open by itself and they heard some queer noise going out through it. She was buried the next day and the people who brought out the coffin said it looked as if it was empty.
Long ago when the Penal laws were in Ireland(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Fhathaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyconnoe South, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Wall
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Finavarra Demesne, Co. Clare