School: Scoil an Chúrnánaigh, Caisleán Nua Thiar
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ó Seaghdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0488, Page 025
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- Once upon a time there was a man dead in Glensharrold and there was a wake there, and there was a lot of people there. When night time came it was a fine moonlight night.
About 12 o'clock some of the people heard a weird sort of crying and more people did not hear a thing. They were wondering what it was until one old man among them thought that every time one of that family were dead the Banshee used to cry he told(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Keiran Ahern
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael O Grady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 100
