School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)out by where this ghost is. She comes down again and breaks out at Walsh's bush on the Frankford road and down through Clerys, east of Davis's Cover and east of O'Neill's in Kiltrascey. Then the banshee breaks out on the road a Castlejohn and follows the road into Templemichael.
- The Chapel in Windgap was built in the year 1787. The foundation stone was laid by a man named O'Brien from Ballylanigan. He was offered any privilege he wished for in return for the building of the Church. He asked for his grave next to the Chapel door. He got it but a man named Dwyer died at the Chapel door the first Sunday that Mass was said there and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mai Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Frankford or Ballykieran, Co. Kilkenny