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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 155

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  1. The Chapel in Windgap (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    he got his grave next to the Chapel door. Both places are cut away now. It was a Fr. Carrigan that was the first Parish Priest of Windgap a relative of the present Carrigans in Callan.
    The parish of Windgap was in the parish of Dunamaggin till then and the old records of the parish are there still. There was an addition built to the Chapel after 25 years, that is the Sacristy
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  2. A Ghost Story

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    Thomas O'Shea met a dead man one night sitting on a bundle of furze and he had an ass bringing the furze for him. It was an ass that he had some years before he died. He had very bad clothes on him and Thomas
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mai Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas O' Shea
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 62
    Address
    Frankford or Ballykieran, Co. Kilkenny