School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 076
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“Once upon a time there was a widow who had a fool of a son.”
(continued from previous page)days the widow killed a goat and dug the minister up and put him in a different place. She put the the goat in the place where the minister's body had been. Her son did not see her doing this.
Shortly afterwards the police called to this house and asked if they had seen a minister around that way. The son said immediately that he had seen the minister and he brought them out and showed them where his body was. They dug and dug until at last they came to the end. What was there only a goat and it was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Madge Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Seskin, Co. Kilkenny