School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 056
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- (continued from previous page)the last person was gone the gate closed after him.
Connolly went on and into the house and the man was dead. The sweat poured down off him and they said.
"Mick you met the dead hunt tonight."
- In this locality it is customary on May Eve to get a white thorn bush and place it in the manure heap. Then it is decorated with brilliant coloured papers and ribbons also with all the egg sheels that are kept over after Easter Sunday.
On May Eve there was another custom held in this locality. All the farmers went out into their tillage fields with the Easter water and sprinkled it on the four corners of the field also on all their cattle.
In olden times bad people came to the tillage gardens and put eggs in the potato drills so as to take way the produce of their crop. These bad people used also skin the wells on a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
