A woman hung herself in Coolagh Chapel and she was buried in Hickey's Hill in Garryhaloo and afterwards she appeared to many.
One night she appeared to Fr. Purcell, the Parish Priest of Windgap. He was riding on a white horse and he thought to put her back with the strength of a stone. The horse got into a terrible way and Fr. Purcell had to take out the Blessed Sacrament to save himself. That happened on the Carraig-na-gCapall

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 privelege 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 he got his grave next to the Chapel door. Both places are cut away now. It was

A man named OShea once lived in Frankford.
One night he was coming from Windgap through

walked to Waterford which is a distance of about 25 miles. She carried a little basket on her arm. She milked the cows in the morning before she left home and she walked back in the evening and was in time to milk the cows again. When she reached Windgap a man by the name of Fennelly carried her basket home.
Evidently the old people knew the value of money more than we do.

gentleman from Windgap was cycling from Callan when just at the glen he heard the horse trotting behind him. He took it for granted that it was Matty Moore on horseback so he cycled faster to Moore's shop and dismounted from his bicle and left it against the wall. When standing on the road the horse and rider passed into Moore's stable.
The gentleman waited for some time for Moore to come out but getting uneasy at the long delay went into the stable himself and was greatly surprized to find neiter horse or man inside.

When Matty Moore was owner of Mr. O'shea's public house in Windgap he used to ride on horse-back to Kilmoganny when business was over every night.
One night about twelve o'clock a

it up. He used to make barrels and churns and he got great call, for a cooper's trade was a good trade in the old days.
Wheels are made in the forge by John Walsh, Windgap, and wheels are also made by the carpenter Johnny Jackman. There was an old man going around and his name was "Nailer", how he got this name is because he was famous for making nails. There are two disused lime kilns in Ballyhawk. There is a lime kiln in Baline which is still used.

Anthony Dwyer had a forge. He made, cranes, brands, gates and repaired ploughs and he also made spades. He died about thirty years ago.A few years ago there lived an old woman named Mrs. Prendergast near Windgap. She had a quern for grinding wheat. The meal was used for filling sausages and for a dish known as "prawpeen" a mixture of wheat and milk.

Some time ago there lived a man named Ned Cronical in Butlerswood. When people had old oil barrels empty they would give the barrels to Ned to make two tubs for them. Ned had a lot of work to do because all the people bought a lot of oil. So the people called him "Ned the Cooper".Near Windgap village an old man named

Before Cromwell came to Ireland there was a monastery in Killamery some of the ruins of which can be seen to the present day. Some of the very old people used to say that before the monasstery was destroyed that between monks and lay brothers they numbered something about four hundred. The old people used also state that there was a large church adjoining the monastery called St. Mary's church. Killamery was at that time the parish instead of Windgap. Cromwell turned this church into a Protestant church and distroyed the monastery. There is also a well adjoining this church called St. Nicholas's well with a curious shaped stone over it. The old people used to state that when the monks saw Cromwell coming they brought out some very valuable holy gold vessels and hid them within a "pelt" of a stone of the monastery. And they also hid a

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.

The road leading from Callan to Carrick -on-Suir is now the main one which is very wide and fitting for traffic. It is called the New Line. It was made 89 years ago at the time of the public works. The old hill road is the one leading from Windgap to Lamogue which is still used. There is another old road which is not used for traffic nowadays. It leads from Dublin to Clonmel. It is through a part of this parish through Frankford, Ballygowan and through Kilmoganny between Kilkieran and Clonmel Binconi. The government started relief work after the famine. The work was making roads, building hospitals and work-houses. The people only got four pence per day working in those times and their diet.

I live in the townland of Birchwood, in the Parish of Windgap and in the Barony of Kells. THere are seven families living in Birchwood. The number of people living in Birchwood is about twenty eight persons. All the houses in Birchwood are slated. The reason is because the Slate quarries are so near. The most pleniful name in the townland of Birchwood is Moore. There is not any old man living the townalnd of Birchwood. There are alot of old ruins of old houses to be seen there still. There is a very large wood in the townland of Birchwood also which is called the oak wood. In that wood there is an ivy rock which Fionn Mac Cumhail is supposed to throw from Carraig A Doon.

There was a R.C. church where Ed Power's house now is under the jurisdiction of the Jerpoint and Knocktopher Abbeys until the "Penal Days." It ceased to function with the Suppression of the monasteries except on rare occasions when wandering friars of above orders celebrated mass and held confessions. There is no doubt that from 1729 Kilkieran was the principal place of worship for the Tullahought area. It was also their burying gd until about 1826 when a church was built where the present one now is. The area became part of the parish of Windgap at that time. It was known as

Names &c of Roads are given as The Carrick Rd leading to Carrick-on-Suir (1834), The Kyle Road leading to Ballyhale & the Kilkenny Road leading to Callan & Kilkenny. The older roads are the Currahill Road leading to Windgap & the Clue Hill, which is the oldest road in the district & still used. "Bog Roads" are numerous.
Ballor's Lane leads up the hill to Kewchurch &c.

A castle, built by the Normans on Mr Butler's land, is two fields in from the road leading to Windgap. A dyke was built round it & a draw-bridge allowed the people in & out.
At the top of the castle are trap-doors from which people were dropped to death. There is one place called "Molly the Spinners Room" where people were kept prisoners.

Long ago, when the boy of a farmer living in Coolhill, went for the cows in the morning, he could see a priest saying Mass in the corner of the certain field.
(2) The people of Windgap used hear a bell about six o'clock in the morning.

This song was composed by a poet called Lory Mc. Coy who lived in Windgap village where Dalton's house now stands. The song is as follows:-I
My name it is Michael, in Windgap I'm living,
I don't care the divil the truth I will tell you.
It's of a sad fate that befell me of late.
The truth I'll relate how it caused me to ruin.2
A tinker, Tom Carty, who made me laugh hearty,
Darley O'Doherty and Denis O'Toole,
Who had this fine mule with salt on his tale,
Above all on the fair sure I fancied the mule.3
I sent for Sean Dorgan to clinch the bargain,

bishop died in Kyleavala and was attended by Fr Gahan, an Augustinian Friar of Fethard. He willed a lot of property to Maynooth College which is called the "Dunboyne Grant." The will was disputed by the Protestants as they thought he died a Protestant but, an old housekeeper proved she saw Fr Gahan taking a bright case out of his pocket which she thought a snuff box. This showed that he was anointed and so won the case for the College.One Sunday morning, there was a priest going to say mass in Windgap. and he met a man. on the road with a basket. The priest noticed that the man was trying to hide the basket from him so he asked him what was in it. The man told him that it was seven pups, that he was

One girl is the wolf and another the mother and all the other girls are the sheep. The mother says "Sheep, sheep go to grass". She next says : "Sheep, sheep come home." The sheep say "No", The mother says "Why" and the sheep say "The wolf". The mother then says "The wolf is gone to Windgap and won't come back tonight" The sheep come back and the wolf tries to catch them. This is continued until all the sheep are caught.
Patricia Ahearne, Fethard St, Mullinahone, Co. Tipp