School: Tibohine (roll number 15544)
- Location:
- Tibohine, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Úna Ní Thiomáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 233
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- (continued from previous page)him about the woman so he told him.
The next day the father and son were waiting in the garden when the wife appeared in a white dress down to her heels. The husband had great welcome for her and inquired where she was. "Well" said the wife "I was brought by the good people and I can never come back unless you come out to the gap at "gáirdín isteach" at just midnight and have salt and holy water with you.
"There will be thousands of us in it dressed all alike and all on white horses." You won't be able to know me from the others so I will have my head down on my shoulder and then you will be able to distinguish me from the others. When you see me throw the salt at me and I will fall from my horse to the ground.
Before I fall to the ground shake the holy water on me or I will(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Callaghan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
