School: Tobinstown, Tullow
- Location:
- Tobinstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghrádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 048
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- Once upon a time in the townland of Knockranne my father used to live there.
There was a man named James Toole who used to have sheeps grazing on my father's land.
One night he came to look at the sheep.
My father's mother had planned it up to go out to frighten him when he was coming back.
She put a white sheet around her and went out to frighten him. As she got up on the ditch she saw a vision a banshee combing her hair. It frightened her so much that she got down quickly and came home. When she came in she looked ghostly. As she was coming into the house the cock crowed and the hens began to cackle.
She is now dead about thirty years. This happened about forty years ago
This story was told to me by my father last night.
- Collector
- Teresa Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
