School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Mary Theresa
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- (continued from previous page)trouble was to happen, it was heard but wasn't since.
The banshee is another local spirit. It is heard crying for some of the families in the district. On one occasion it alighted in the form of a white bird and in the house there was a person dying, and in a half an hour the person was dead. It is always heard crying in forth
- HolyWells.
In Gallarambraher about two miles from Ballyjamesduff there is a Holy Well, called "The Monk's Well". It is said to be there for a hundred years and an Old Monk passing through the town-land blessed it when he was by the well, it is at the edge of and old grave yard and a little hole in the shape of a plate is the Well. The people have great faith in it. Many people have been cured for different sot of pains. - Collector
- Pearl Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Peter Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 50
- Address
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
