School: Ballinea (roll number 10426)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Farrell
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- (continued from previous page)James McDonnell went astray. He suddenly got confused and did not know where he was.
He kept rambling around the field for half an hour. He suddenly saw the gate and went out on it, and so got home safely. - The banshee is supposed to follow certain families and to cry when any one of the family is about to die. A nun in this locality told Mrs O Farrell that the night her father died she heard a banshee crying up and down the covent corridor outside the(continues on next page)
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- Mrs O Farrell
- Gender
- Female