School: Dunshaughlin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Gabhann
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 242
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- (1) The Leipreacan is dressed funny. His shoes are long and turned up at the toe. He is small and has a long beard. No one in the parish saw him.
(2) The beanshide follows people named Morris, Murphys, and Gogans. It is heard before and after the people dying. There was an old man and a woman and my brother and sister saw her. The names of the people Dick Walsh who is dead now. Rosie Delaney Tom Kenny and Mary Kenny. The old woman saw her at a place called the black gate when he was finished cutting thistles. He saw her at the scythe.
- Collector
- Michael Kenny
- Gender
- Male
