School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 306
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- XML Page 306
- XML (no title)
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
(no title) (continued)
“Some years ago a man named Peter Brady was working with a man named James Quinn.”
(continued from previous page)Brady:-''Why did you hit me that box?'' ''I did not hit you a box,'' said Brady. ''Yes you did hit me and you told me my house is in a drain in the bog,'' said Quinn. ''I told you nothing of the sort,'' said Brady. ''All right,'' said Quinn we will get up and see.''
They both got up out of bed, put on their clothes, got ropes and went to the drain. Right enough the house was in the drain. They took him out of it and nothing (ever) Ever happened after.(2)In the parish of Upper Drumreilly there lived, in years gone by, a woman named Rourke. This woman was seventy years old when this thing I am going to describe happened.
One night as this woman was about to take a bucket of water out of a spring-well she heard a voice saying:-''Lord have mercy on me.'' She listened(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie O Hara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60