School: Mullagh (C )

Location:
Mullagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Elizabeth Murchan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 188

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    the night. So evidently the banshee had come to warn her, because up to this day it cries for the real old families before they die. In the village of Mullagh, only eight weeks ago the banshee was heard and the death of a member of a real old family followed.
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  2. In the village of Mullagh, very many years ago, a strange thing happened. One night the owner of a house died suddenly. After his death the remainder of the family set the house and went to live somewhere else.
    The first people that came to live to it were only in it a short time when the wife got sick and one night the husband got up to get her a drink. When he reached the kitchen, he
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie O Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Mary O Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    45
    Address
    Mullagh, Co. Cavan