School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 039
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Peter Browne was engaged in a bakery establishment in the village. He resides where Mrs. Walsh lives now and the oven is still there but for years past it has never been used. Of course the bakery buisness is very up to date now-a-days and quite a number of vans from different towns arrive in Windgap daily.4.
In olden times candles and soap were made in every home. All the old people believed in their own manufacture of these useful household articles. In manufacturing candles they rolled cotton together and dipped it in grease.
- Long ago mostly all people were married on shorve Tuesday from 4 o'clock upwards. About thirty or forty couples were married on that evening. The priest used to go to the house and marry them and the highest esteemed person ate with him when the marriages were over.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- William Brophy
- Gender
- Male
