Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. The Banshee (continued)

   

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   guarding the corpse that night. Perhaps he had been driven mad for the time been at the strange manner of her death. The people buried him as near to her as they could, just outside the cemetery wall, as he was found dead lying on her grave. In fact it is said that he never left her grave since the night she was buried.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Máirtín de Róiste