Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0337

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0337

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    There was an ould couple living in Downing long ago.

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  2. About three or four months ago the evening Billy Lynch was dying in Kilally, I head a terrible cry. I thought it was his mother crying so I did not take much notice of it. But begor I notice that it came nearer and nearer til I thought it passed our gate; and there is a small beech tree growing near it, and it was shook asunder. So on the cry went in the direction of Leitrim graveyard, his burying place. That very night I went down to the village and I met his Aunt - Billy was dead this time. So I told her that Billy was dead.
    "Oh my God," says she, "I head the bean sidhe
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