'The Bow/The Banshee' from the collection "That's what we were told anyway...'

That's what we were told anyway... is a collection of local folklore and stories told by people from the Raheen area of Co. Wexford.
The collection emerged from a Wexford County Council project conducted by artist Michael Fortune with participants of the Raheen Active Retirement Group between the 18th of July to the 8th of August 2006.
The original collection was launched on DVD but it has now been presented online as part of new project Michael has conduced with pupils from Coláiste Abbain in Adamstown in 2015.

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

I just love listening to the stories.

[@kaidaskins5102]

The story of the banshee has always fascinated me and I think I do believe in it but it always raises the question for me that could it not just be a vixen(female fox) these people heard screaming? I come from a family who lived in the countryside of Wexford near ballycanew and often do we hear the cry of the vixen and it sounds the very same as a woman howling in grief or pain? I do believe in other worldly things but I’ve always had that thought about the vixen. Who knows? Maybe it is the banshee...

[@HisWordisLife4U]

I thought the same thing. Maybe a vixen. But could you hear a vixen cry over 3 miles?

[@alwilson3204]

@@HisWordisLife4U A late response, but it compares with the audio of bigfoot in America, properly examined which is very different from normal animal and bird calls. Having heard the banshee once in my youth in a terrifying experience with others on a camp out, there is no real comparison when the female screams and cries are heard in close proximity!

[@HisWordisLife4U]

@@alwilson3204 My sister heard a Banshee once; she doesn't like to talk about it. It still scares her.

[@baxpiz1289]

Banshees only keen for five families: O'Brien, O'Neill, O'Connor, O'Grady and Kavanaugh . . .

[@celticphilomena]

She cried for a Poole before she died.

[@pollyanne234]

Ive heard banshees