School: Druim Bréan Lios (roll number 15029)

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   “I was knitting a shawl for my mother and did not know how to put the fringe on it...”

   

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   Mrs Kiernan is now sixty four years of age. She tells this happened to her when she was twenty years of age.
   This is how she told it:-
   I was knitting a shawl for my mother and did not know how to put the fringe on it or how to make the little knots for the fringe. I said I'd go to Ellen Higgins Joe Doyle's sister who lived at the back of our house only two fields between the two houses. I went to Ellen and she showed me how to put on the fringe. When she had it done she came out a piece with me. I could see the stile into my own field as plain as daylight until she said to me "Child you are going wrong" and caught hold of my arm. I then looked and saw the loveliest planting of trees at my back and lovely shrubs at my feet. Every time Ellen caught my arm that's what I would see but when she let go my arm I saw my own stile. She insisted on holding my arm and saying I was going astray. I was not a bit afraid. We kept roaming through

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Dan Kiernan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   64

   Address

   Errew, Co. Leitrim