School: Cabra, Kingscourt
- Location:
- Cabra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Violet Irwin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1008, Page 106
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: Cabra, Kingscourt
- XML Page 106
- XML “A Whitewood Family”
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
- A family, that once lived in Whitewood, Co. Meath, was very fond of foxes and foxhunting.
Every time one of the family was about to die, several foxes could be heard crying round the house for three preceding nights. They also followed the funeral as far as possible and sometimes to the graveyard.
For three nights after the funeral, they could be seen round the grave.
- Collector
- Winnie Shekleton
- Gender
- Female
