School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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- (continued from previous page)way his wife had died.
- The Banshee is a voice heard when a person is going to die. It is only supposed to be heard when a family with Mac or O in their names when they are going to die.This is one story I heard about a Banshee one day a man was walking along the road where a woman named Mrs. O'Brien lived, and he told all the people that he saw that she was going to die, that he heard the Banshee, but no one believed him, so the next morning she was found dead.
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Greevy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornasleehan, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Greevy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornasleehan, Co. Roscommon
