School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- XML “Fairies”
- XML “The Banshee”
- XML “Water Horse”
- XML “A Strange Fish”
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Also that that same night that the fairies came for his child two children were dead in the same street next morning. - The Banshee still comes to warn the people that death is near.
She is often reported heard round here, especially before old natives die. - Mrs Oates says she saw a water horse in Lough [?] that it came up and ploughed round the fields and that a man followed it with a whip and that it kicked the man to death.
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