School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 050
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- (continued from previous page)Any person by the name of Cahill could cure tetters by their blood. Mrs. White from the Slate Quarries can cure ring-worm by herbs.
- There is a Mass Path going from Tom Phelan's Rossanene to the "Old Seague House" in Windgap. The people travelled to Mass that way as it was a short cut. The path is very narrow at the beginning but it gets wider up at the top.
There is another "Mass Path" coming in from the Frankfort road to Windgap Church. It runs through a field and many people came in that way to Mass. - James Prendergast has a field called "The Sand Pit Field" because there is a pit in the middle of the field and trees grow all around it.
Tom Phelan Rossanene also has a field(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kitty Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
