School: Ballinakillew (roll number 8433)
- Location:
- Ballynakillew Mountain, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary K. Nutt
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- Collector
- Eileen Monaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Ballynakillew Mountain, Co. Donegal
- Mick Dogherty’s wife was ill, but no body thought she would die at that time. A man was going up the road past the house. He heard a noise. This noise was a great crying unlike any thing he heard before and he knew it was the crying of a banshee. This man went home and told(continues on next page)