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School: Sráid na Trágha, Tralee (roll number 12356)

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Liam Mac Cárthaigh
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    in by frequent land slides. Tradition has it that on the banks of this lake lived a Druid with his only daughter. The daughter was young innocent and beautiful and it was her custom when beautiful Summer nights came to sit on the margin of the lake and survey and admire the great Starry Arch of the Heavens and wonder what mystery lay hidden away beyond that great blue Dome!
    One night as she sat at her usual place she heard a lonely wail close by to her melancholy and lonesome as the wail of a lost soul, and looking round her she calls, "Who Weeps Who Wails," and suddenly she saw a woman clothed in white appear on the bank of the lake, and then she called, "Come hither, O Woman of Sorrows, Whence thy great grief, tell to me thy great Sorrows, and the White Lady answered "I weep for the sins of Men". The young girl then asked what were the sins of Men that caused her grief and then The White Lady answered to her in the lake as in a mirror the whole World like a great plain miles upon miles in extent, and there the young girl saw robbery, murder and every crime was committed in the world appeared before her and turning to the White Lady she asked how long will this go on or when will it end, and she answered. It will continue on until the coming of the Redeemer which has been promised to the people of this world. The Gods of your people are not real gods. Far away beyond the Starry arch is the great spirit who created this world
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. banshees (~369)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alfie Switzer
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Caherina Villa, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Thomas Kerins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Caherina Villa, Co. Kerry