School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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“I remember some years ago to listen very attentively to a story told to me by my granny relating to a very serious sickness her husband contracted.”
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“During the time of the fairies a woman was milking her cows out on a valley.”
During the time of the fairies a woman was milking her cows out on a valley. When she got home her people noticed that she got very fraib-looking and tired. After a few hours she got very ill and had to go to bed.
When her people saw that she was so ill they sent for a doctor and priest. They had no satisfaction in talking to her and she seemed to be a different person entirly. After a few days she died and was buried in the usual way.
Some time after her brother was going home from his ceilidhe. After a while he was astonished by talking and laughing people and the pounding of horses. He looked behind him and saw a number of horsemen and women come towards him. When they were going past, to his great surprise, he saw his dead sister riding a big white horse and dressed in her usual clothes. He advanced towards(continues on next page)