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Ireland

2 entries in 2 subareas: 2 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

Ireland, with a differentiated distribution: bean sí in the west and the north, badhbh in the south-east (Leinster and eastern Munster)

ABean sídhe (banshee)Ireland — Ireland, with a differentiated distribution: bean sí in the west and the north, badhbh in the south-east (Leinster and eastern Munster)

Munster: County Cork — the Blackwater valley between Castle Hyde, Ballyhooly and Doneraile, the country round Mallow, and the road from Glanmire into Cork city — in Croker's pages; in the manuscript collections of 1937-1939, County Limerick between Newtown and Glin and County Clare at Kilrush

ADullahanIreland — Munster: County Cork — the Blackwater valley between Castle Hyde, Ballyhooly and Doneraile, the country round Mallow, and the road from Glanmire into Cork city — in Croker's pages; in the manuscript collections of 1937-1939, County Limerick between Newtown and Glin and County Clare at Kilrush

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Ireland documented in this atlas: Bean sídhe (banshee) and Dullahan. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (2 at grade A), with the sources it comes from. The 2 subareas are not an administrative division: folklore lives in cultural areas, which rarely coincide with state borders.

Bean sídhe (banshee) A
She does not kill, does not threaten and does not touch: she announces. Her lament, the caoineadh, is heard at night near the house or near a watercourse and foretells the death of a member of a particular family, and it can…

Dullahan A
In Croker's pages the dullahan is not one thing. He is the headless coachman of a black coach drawn by six horses that are themselves beheaded, and he is the rider who carries his own head under his right arm. The head, in…

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