School: Dunleer (C.) (roll number 1496)
- Location:
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 018
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- (continued from previous page)spirit guards the river bridge between Dunleer and Dromin, watching from her seat, her enemy to come that way, She has long to wait, for the good hag was taken to Greenmount, where the people hid her in the moat there, and called her, "Greenmount Smiling Ann."
The butter returned to the cows, and the lambs to the sheep, and the eggs to the hens, but the Caillach of the Ravel still holds the bridge, and when the moon is on, the wane she can be seen, and she is known to the country folk to-day as "Red Biddy."
I give the foregoing story exactly as I heard it from
Mr. T. P. Harmon ex N.T.
Barn Rod; Dunleer.
- Collector
- Maura Faulkner
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Trean, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr T. P. Harmon
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
