School: Bearna na Gaoithe (B.) Thomastown (roll number 5697)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Haonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 173
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- Once upon a time there was a man going to get married. In those days motorcars were unknown, so the way the man got to the church was on horse back, when he was married himself and his wife left the church to go home, when they came out darkness covered the land, so they journeyed along home-ward, coming up near a shop in a town which they had to pass, the man stopped the horse and dismounted and went into the shop leaving his wife on the horse outside, as he was gone in two men came along, seeing the woman they took her off the horse, and carried her away and killed her. They cut off her head and put it under the floor af an out-house, the name of the man that owned the house was Mr Phelan of Callan, two months ago this house was knocked down, there the men found the head of the woman around the head were wrapped bandages of cloth, and inside the cloth were found, twenty golden coins, my(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Norris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Seskin, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Patrick Norris
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Seskin, Co. Kilkenny
