School: Cuan an Bhainigh (Bannow)

Location:
Carrick, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Tomás Breatnach
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 022

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 022

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cuan an Bhainigh (Bannow)
  2. XML Page 022
  3. XML “A Ghost Story”
  4. XML “Our Holy Well - Lady's Well”

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

  1. It is said that Shea's Lane which is situated in the townland of Haggard is haunted. A man is seen there at night.
    He is a tall dark man and is dressed in white. He is seen between twelve and one o' clock at night. He goes from one side of the road to the other and then disappears. There is one field in this lane and no one can work in it in the afternoon or something would happen to themselves or their horses and then nobody works in it in the afternoon.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Maddock
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Haggard, Co. Wexford
  2. There is one Holy Well in Bannow called the Lady's Well. Nobody ever visits this well or gets any water from it.
    No one ever goes to pray round this well as is done at other wells. This well is situated in a field belonging to Mr Wade.
    A very strange thing happened about this well. One time some soldiers washed their clothes in it and on the next
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Sinnott
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    82
    Address
    Brandane, Co. Wexford