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School: Bearna na Gaoithe (B.) Thomastown (roll number 5697)

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Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Seán Ó Haonghusa
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    Page 181
    Taken down by James Butler from his grandfather, James Butler, Inchnaglough, Windgap, Co. Kilkenny, age 80 years:
    Old Customs
    About three years ago, we were taking out a floor. My father found a horse's head in the middle of it and it built around with stones. We took it up and we put own some of the boarded (floor) floor. Then we put it back again and my grandfather said the house was built about two hundred years. It is said that it was put there for an echo.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Butler
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    James Butler
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Inchanaglogh, Co. Kilkenny