School: Ballydaniel (roll number 13892)
- Location:
- Ballydaniel, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Micheál Mac Amhlaoimh
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- One night after twelve o'clock a man was walking along the road, and when he came to a gate in Three Castles , he saw a shadow pass through it. He had a greyhound with him, and when they came to the gate the greyhound would not go past the gate for him, and it was not his own shadow either.
- Collector
- Alice Mullan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Maher
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Threecastles, Co. Kilkenny
- Three Castles had a great hurling team duing the past years. they once played in the All-Ireland Championship, and won the match. There were seventeen members in it.
- One day a lady visitor came to Kilkenny Castle and brought with her three fat mice. The owner of the Castle never noticed anything until the place was full of mice. There were mice everywhere. They advertised for cats. Soon the castle was full of cats. The is how Kilkenny got the name "The Kilkenny Cats."