School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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- It is a common thing to hear the cries of the Ban Shee. When she cries the neighbours know that some person is about to die, the Ban Shee is a small white woman she cries after certain families namely, Crowe and any person who has Mc. before his name.
One night long ago a man was going across a hill he found a beautiful comb and brought it home. That night he heard the Ban Shee crying outside the window. Next day the man went to the priest and told him what had happened. The priest told him to put the comb on a fork and hand it out to the Ban Shee the next night, but he told him to point the grains towards her. The man did this and and the Ban Shee took the fork with her
- Collector
- Dannie Edwards
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Cloonan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
