School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)

Location:
Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 154

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    out by where this ghost is. She comes down again and breaks out at Walsh's bush on the Frankford road and down through Clerys, east of Davis's Cover and east of O'Neill's in Kiltrascey. Then the banshee breaks out on the road a Castlejohn and follows the road into Templemichael.
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  2. The Chapel in Windgap was built in the year 1787. The foundation stone was laid by a man named O'Brien from Ballylanigan. He was offered any privilege he wished for in return for the building of the Church. He asked for his grave next to the Chapel door. He got it but a man named Dwyer died at the Chapel door the first Sunday that Mass was said there and
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mai Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas O' Shea
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 62
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Frankford or Ballykieran, Co. Kilkenny