School: Mullagh (C )
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Elizabeth Murchan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)never-ending source of stories. Ghosts he had heard of although he never saw any. He believed, firmly, in all these. As for the banshee he would allow no one to say that she does not exist. Indeed, I heard it said that it cried for himseld before his death, as it does for all the O'Reilly family around Mullagh.Pat was a very hand-some old man. He hasd the manners of a gentelman, lived always at peace with his neighbours who looked upon him as a real "bard".He used to sit, on the long winter's nights , in the place of honour in the farm- house kitchen at an immense fire of turf and sticks with his hands supporting his chin, always, and telling these stores in a monotonous tone of voice, and indeed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie O Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat the Bard
- Gender
- Male
