School: Ballycar, Cuinche
- Location:
- Ballycar, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Liam Mac Clúin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 221
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: Ballycar, Cuinche
- XML Page 221
- XML “Going Astray”
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
- (continued from previous page)he thought he was. He could not realize how he reached where he was, as he never remembered crossing walls or a drain, which he should have done to leave the field he was in at first.
John looked around him, and seeing a light he made his way as best he could towards it. He found that it was the light of the house he had left hours previously. The man of the house told John that several had been known to be led astray in that field. The man himself was in the habit of going in his cuaird to a neighbouring village along this path. He told John that if he saw light (Jackey the lantern) on his setting out for the village he would immediately return home, for he said he was bound to be led astray on such a night.
John himself remembered hearing stories about the beanshee being heard in the neighbourhood, and being of a nervous disposition he made his way home along the public road. His family were much relieved when he arrived, although he was quite pale and in a "lather of a sweat."(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James O' Dea
- Gender
- Male
