Death Signs

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Mrs Sarah Doherty

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Death Signs

“About two years ago my grandmother, Mrs Sarah McLaughlin, got three days warning before her death.”

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Mrs Jerrimiah Gallagher

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“Two children belonging to Mr Daniel Doherty, Altohay, Carndonagh, died about twenty five years ago.”

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Daniel Doherty

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“Before me Charlie Mc Keague dies about four years ago, a "caoineadh" was heard at a lonely road called "the pipes".”

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“Before the last world was nothing could be heard for nights but the crying of banshees.”

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Mrs Lily Doherty

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“About eighty years ago a woman who had been away in America for a long time wrote home to her parents who were living beside the convent in Carndonagh, informing them that she was coming home to pay them a visit.”

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Mr Henry Doherty

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Fairy Stories

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Miss Annie Mc Elhinney, Monica Cavanagh

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Fairy Stories

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Miss Annie Mc Elhinney, Monica Cavanagh

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Fairy Stories

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Miss Annie Mc Elhinney, Monica Cavanagh

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Fairy Stories

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Miss Annie Mc Elhinney, Monica Cavanagh

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“Old Biddy Brannigan lived alone at Tulnaree over eighty years ago, in her little thatched cottage with not another soul to talk to, still she was happy, as she let her Rosary slip quietly through her fingers, with the shades of evening falling on the worl”

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Maeve Doogan, Miss Nellie Doherty

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“In olden times when the people used to have to watch their babies and when they went outside they had to put a pair of tongs over the cradle.”

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Miss Minnie Tonner

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“About seventy years ago there lived a man in this parish, and he said that no fairies could lead him astray.”

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Miss Minnie Toner

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“About sixty years ago there lived in Ballywillie, Gleneely, two men named Joe Doherty and James Mc Gonagle.”

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“About seventy years ago there were rocks and flags of stone in the middle of a field in Casheleraw, near Carndonagh.”

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“About sixty years ago my great grandfather, John Kearney, who lived in Casheleraw in the parish of Donagh, was quarrying stones in a field near the house.”

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“There was a man named Hugh Sweeney living about fourty years ago in the Glenties.”

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“About sixty years ago a man named Patrick Doherty lived in Clonmany, he carried away a stone from a place which belonged to fairies.”

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“About sixty five years ago a man from near Clonmany was coming from the cross and he was seen passing Bindoran bridge and he was not seen after that because he was taken by the fairies.”

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Miss Cassie Mc Coole

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“One winters night Sarah Ned's brother who lived where his sister lives in Mullins, Carndonagh was coming home from a wake.”

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