School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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“There was once a woman who lived in a cottage by herself and when the boys used to go home from school every they used to knock at the door and torment her then they would run away and when she would go to the door they would be gone.”
A Story July 16th 1934
There was once a woman who lived in a cottage by herself and when the boys used to go home from school every they used to knock at the door and torment her then they would run away and when she would go to the door they would be gone.
One day she got a can of water and (fe) left it inside the door and a knock came she opened the door alittle and threw out the water and who was there but the parish priest and she never tried this trick again.
- Collector
- Mary Cass
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodquarter, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Lawlor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Castlekelly, Co. Kilkenny