School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)

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1. Death Signs

   “Before the last world was nothing could be heard for nights but the crying of banshees.”

   

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   Before the last world-war nothing could be heard for nights but the crying of banshees, so it is said that the people knew that there was going to be a lot of blood shed.

   

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2. Death Signs

   “About eighty years ago a woman who had been away in America for a long time wrote home to her parents who were living beside the convent in Carndonagh, informing them that she was coming home to pay them a visit.”

   

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   About eighty years ago a woman who had been away in America for a long time wrote home to her parents who were living beside the convent in Carndonagh, informing them that she was coming home to pay them a visit. The day after she wrote the letter she took seriously ill and died on the night her parents were expecting her. They remained up until a late hour awaiting her arrival but as it was so late they thought perhaps she had stopped in Derry, so they retired to bed. Later in the

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Henry Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal