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

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Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 243

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    during the sermon about the small collections the priests were getting in Windgap. "Did the people think that the priests could live on the wind" he said. The piper was in the Chapel and on hearing this, he immediately stood up and said The man that was living on the wind would not be allowed to do so.
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