School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 04_014
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- There was a man coming from a wake one night, and there was no one with him, when he came to a crossroad, where there was a bush and it was called the fairy bush he saw an old woman dressed in white, sitting under the bush, and she was crying, he said ""Good night" she did not answer him, he said he got a little frightened but passed, as he knew it was a haunted bush, His house was a few yards from the crossroad, which would taken him about ten minutes to go to his house, but instead he was all night wandering along the road, and at day light in morning he found(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Austin Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Deerpark East, Co. Mayo
