School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 290
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- (continued from previous page)knew it was the priest that owned it, so she cut the reins that tied the pony and trap to the gate and the pony got away. The next day when the priest saw her he said "the world will wonder at the death you'll get." Every night ramblers used to go to ramble to Clery's house and they used to say to her in the bed. "Are you a witch or are you a fairy or are you the wife of Michael Clery." And she used to answer. "No! I'm not a witch nor a fairy, but I am the wife of Michael Clery."
From the day the priest said the course to her she was always in bed after that she was an invalid. But in the nightime she used to go down to the fire to talk to the ramblers. One night she did not go down to the fire and her husband went up for her. (Continued on further)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Paddy Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roscon, Co. Kilkenny
