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School: Kilturk (B.)

Location:
Kilmore, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0878, Page 022

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    of the fella's fathers was dead and then they knew why the Bow caoired, because she always comes and caoines outside the window of a descendant of Melisuis Dies. This girls was a Milisuian and was murdered many hundreds of years ago and before she dies she said she would warn all her kinsmen before they died by screeching under their windows on the night before her death.
    Told by Mr. P. Lambert. Kilmore, Co. Wexford
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr P. Lambert
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmore, Co. Wexford