School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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- (continued from previous page)her that night. The howl was about 11p.m. I went into bed and covered my head.
My father saw a Banshee sitting under a window sill crying for a person who was dying inside." - II
The last time the banshee was heard crying in this district was on the occasion of the death of William Burnett (about 4 years ago).
One dark foggy night, about eleven o'clock, while Burnett was ill, the Banshee's moaning was heard. The cry went on till about three oclock next morning. Many heard it including relatives of the sick man. A week after this, the man died.- Collector
- Irene Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Forgney, Co. Longford