School: Banahoe
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)passed out the stranger. A few yards further on she found her father lying in the swollen watercourse in the last stages of exhuastion.
- It is said that if a person open a grave and takes a hand off a corpse and keeps it that he or she will have supernatural power. Catherine the Rock who lived in a little house in the corner of the Big Field which now belongs to Tom Gaffney, Carrickatobair had such a hand and she could steal anything from any house. She would come quietly about a house at night and push in the dead hand on a door or window. Immediately she did this everyone in the hosue fell asleep. Then Katherine went in and took what she pleased.
A certain man challenged her that she'd steal nothing from him. She took up the challenge and said she'd be at his house that night(continues on next page) - Informant
- Tom Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cross Keys, Co. Cavan
