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School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)

Location:
Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 125

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  1. Micky Dillon's Auld Mule (continued)

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    Look at his feet without slippers or shoes,
    But 't'was all for the worse, sure it emptied my purse,
    And made Mary curse, myself and the mule.
    Mickey Dillion who lived in Windgap had his mule for a while after that and one day the mule strayed away from home and could not be found. So Michael went to Clonmel to a wise woman or a fortune-teller who lived there at the time. He told her his trouble and she said to him to go to a place in the county Wexford which she minutely discribed to him and that he would find his mule tied to a wooden gate there. He did so and found his mule as she had propesied and brought him back safely to Windgap again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Jones
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    John Dalton
    Gender
    Male