School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)
- Location:
- Ballylosky, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Beirín Ní Bhaoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1114, Page 144
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“A woman named Nora O' Donnell lived in Tiernaleague, Carndonagh about twelve years ago.”
(continued from previous page)[page no.: 144]house. Still she could hear the sorrowful crying and it sounded as though someone was crying beside her. She looked around but saw nobody. She became afraid and she returned home. Next day the neighbour was dead and it is supposed that the crying was that of a "bean-side".
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“When a person of the "O" or "Mac" tribes is about to die there is a warning given by a "caoine", with the exception of the O'Callaghan's whose deaths are foretold by the seeing of a light or the hearing of a "caoine".”
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