School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 365
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- (continued from previous page)The woman jumped down and ran off up the boreen. Ever since then no one will go to the bog at night for a load of turf.
- Once a Ballymahon cattle fair came around and a man from this neighbourhood set off the night before with a cow to the fair. He left her in the "park" which is a field outside the town where people leave their cattle the night before a fair and came home.
Next morning on his way to the fair he saw a tiny old woman sitting on the style half way between here and Ballymahon. She wore a red cloak and white apron and she was crying bitterly. The farmer started throwing stones at her and when he eventually hit her she disappeared.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Helen Geoghegan
- Gender
- Female
