School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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- When the police barracks were in Windgap some years ago, the sergeant went down to Mr. Dunphy's and asked him could he cut a blackthorn stick on his land. Mr. Dunphy gave him permission and handed him a hand saw to cut it. It was on a moate the blackthorns were growing and when he had it cut it was a sally. He cut again and again and still they were sallies. When he returned to Mr. Dunphy's he told him what had happened. Mr. Dunphy laughed and told him it was a moate.
- One day Mrs. Dunphy was picking sticks in the field where the moate was. She looked into the moate and saw a beautiful shadow. she went over and(continues on next page)