School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)people outside had seen no horse. Those who went out explained that the horse had passed the window from a certain direction but it was discovered that the boreen to the house was from the opposite direction. That left them wondering.
That same night Daniel J's (Mahoneys) people were up with a cow in Tureenclassagh. and they had the light lighting. Some time in the night they heard the very lonesome ólógón coming along the road and they put out the light. The crying came nearer and passed the house. The Mahoney's, the they looked out saw the very same horse and boy and woman passing along. When they story was told afterwards by the Mahoney's it was decided that the woman on the white horse was the deceased's own mother who had come to 'meet' her.3.
More remarkable still was the statement made by Máire Nic Ghearailt one night in Laughteic, Mrs Moynihan told me. Máire was talking to the people of the house and said that Mrs. Moynihan's grandmother wouldn't 'comb any(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Andrew T. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
