School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Eugene Conway
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 309
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballymahon (B.)
- XML Page 309
- XML “A Strange Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- One night about eleven o'clock my mother and my sister were standing at the door for a very long time, when all of a sudden my mother said to my sister, "Oh, what is that in the channel." It was just up beside them when they saw it. It was a little woman about three feet high and a hump on her back. She had long grey hair down to her knees. My mother and my sister jumped inside the door and bolted the door. They heard the step coming up to the door and then heard a knock at the door. But they didn't hear the step going away. It is the same little woman who walks from the corner of Ballymahon to the corner of Edgeworthstown about twelve miles away.
- Collector
- Liam Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Lily Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 23
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
