School: Twomilehouse (roll number 2284)
- Location:
- Twomilehouse, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Tomás Bineidh
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- One evening my mother went for a bucket of water to the well. As she was coming back she heard a terrible cry. She listened again and she heard one beside her. She heard a third cry about a mile away. She did not know what it was. An old woman that lived close by told her it was a Banshee and the cries were a sign. My brother died two days later, my grannie a fortnight after and my father died in six month's time.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Swordlestown North, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Bridget Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcullen Road, Co. Kildare
