School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)

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   “I remember some years ago to listen very attentively to a story told to me by my granny relating to a very serious sickness her husband contracted.”

   

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   sitting at the foot of his bed. When all was over old doctor Cafferty came in to see his patient. He was mending and he said there never was such a big fight over anyone before and he got it very hard to save him. So he got well and lived for twenty years afterwards.

   

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   “During the time of the fairies a woman was milking her cows out on a valley.”

   

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   During the time of the fairies a woman was milking her cows out on a valley. When she got home her people noticed that she got very fraib-looking and tired. After a few hours she got very ill and had to go to bed.
   When her people saw that she was so ill they sent for a doctor and priest. They had no satisfaction in talking to her and she seemed to be a different person entirly. After a few days she died and was buried in the usual way.
   Some time after her brother was going home from his ceilidhe. After a while he was astonished by talking and laughing people and the pounding of horses. He looked behind him and saw a number of horsemen and women come towards him. When they were going past, to his great surprise, he saw his dead sister riding a big white horse and dressed in her usual clothes. He advanced towards

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Galloghy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumrane, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mr Jack Galloghy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   59

   Address

   Drumrane, Co. Leitrim