School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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Also that that same night that the fairies came for his child two children were dead in the same street next morning.
- The Banshee still comes to warn the people that death is near.
She is often reported heard round here, especially before old natives die. - Mrs Oates says she saw a water horse in Lough [?] that it came up and ploughed round the fields and that a man followed it with a whip and that it kicked the man to death.
- Once a girl who lived near a lake down below Carrick disappeared when she was washing her clothes on its brink. She used to wash there always but one day she never returned and no trace of her could be found so it is(continues on next page)
