School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 458
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- One night I was at the wake of a young man in Mullagh. The bean sí always followed his family and came when any of them died.
About 12:30 pm myself and two other boys left the "barrel house" and came out on the street.
It was a bright moonlight night and we stood outside talking and suddenly we hear a mournful cry that seemed to come up out of the ground under our feet.
It got louder and louder till it seemed to go out through my head and into the door of the berrel and out towards the back door.
We went back into the wake and the face of everyone there was as white as the face of the dead boy on the board while the wild [?] disappeared away up the garden at the back of the house.The term "barrel house" is applied in this locality to a house where a corpse is being waked.
- Collector
- Hugh Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rantavan, Co. Cavan
