School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eóin
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- About fifteen or twenty years ago it is said that Jack Cahill of Killamery caught a leipreachan. He was got on a big stone up on a hill. Nobody believed him until the night after he brought it down in a box inside his coat. It was about nine inches in height and he was dressed in a little red coat. His occupation was cobbling or shoemaking.
The man kept for a couple of nights until at last he had to let him(continues on next page)- Collector
- Florence Blair
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Killamery, Co. Kilkenny