School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)

Location:
Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eóin
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  1. Thomas OShea met a dead man one night sitting on a bundle of furze and he had an ass bringing the furze for him. It was an ass which he had some years before he died. He had very bad clothes on him and Thomas O'Shea remarked, "These are not your own clothes.
    "They are not," said the man. "My own clothes were not given away for me," Thomas OShea asked him what was the matter with him.
    "I have to come here
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mai Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas O' Shea
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 62
    Address
    Frankford or Ballykieran, Co. Kilkenny