School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)
- Location:
- An Cúilín, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Meachair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0539, Page 056
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- Coosáne is the place where I live. Coosáne is an Irish word which means a low marshy place on the bend of a river.
There is a field near my house and it is called the Guilligán. It was originally owned by a Scotchman named Bathcock. It is now owned by Mr. Timothy Coffey of Coosáne. In the centre of this field there is a large rock. It is almost twelve foot high and four foot square. When any member of the Bathcock family were about to die the Banshee would come and perch on the top of this rock and commence a mournful wailing composed of the following words
How oft the Banshee cried
How oft has death untied
And cling that glory woe
Sweet bonds of chains and love
Peace to the faithful eye that weepeth
Peace to the faithful heart that sleepeth
May the fair and the brave
Shine o'er the heroe's grave.The wailing woud continue for about ten minutes and the next place it would be heard was at the back of Mr. Bathcocks house.
She would then depart as she was supposed to be a female. Between that and morning(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Teefey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coosane, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Michael Teefey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Railway worker
- Address
- Coosane, Co. Thiobraid Árann
