School: Tinryland, Carlow

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1. Traditional Tales (continued)

   

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   of being tired the Leader said "it is all right Jack so and so "(naming the man) is here in the ditch we will make him carry the corpse a piece". In this case it is said it was the spirit of the corpse he was dealing with and that when morning came, he found himself miles away and the funeral party had disappeared.

   

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2. The Banshee

   

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   An old woman living in a lovely mud cabin in the townsland of Tinryland told how she her the Banshee crooning one moonlight night and as she was a brave old woman she went out without any fear. She saw a little woman sitting on a rock opposite her door. She ordered her away out of that. She

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   Richard Heydon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   Tigh an Réileáin, Co. Cheatharlach