DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4758522
title: Windgap (C.), Thomastown

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Windgap (C.), Thomastown (school) (Windgap, Co. Kilkenny), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Bean Mhic Eóin.
description: There was a teacher here long ago who was an orphan. / Ryan, Madge -- Once upon a time there was a widow who had a fool of a son. / Ryan, Madge -- Once upon a time a man from around here was going to Lamogue. / Ryan, Madge -- Kerry Farmers / Ryan, Kitty -- Paddy Flanagan From Bansha / Ryan, Kitty -- Old Prayers / Ryan, Kitty -- Poor Scholar / Ryan, Kitty -- Fairy Man / Ryan, Kitty -- Old Prayer, Said in Sickness or in Pain / Ryan, Kitty -- Green Woman / Ryan, Kitty -- Attending Mass / Ryan, Madge -- Attending Mass / Ryan, Madge -- White Lady / Murray, Mary B. -- Miser / Murray, Mary B. -- Soldiers' Bush / Murray, Mary B. -- Leprechaun / Murray, Mary B. -- Nightman / Murray, Mary B. -- Poor Scholars / Murray, Mary B. -- One night a neighbour of ours was coming home from Hugginstown. / Murray, Mary B. -- Leprechaun / Phelan, Josie -- Daniel and Walter / Phelan, Josie -- Fairy Mansion / Phelan, Josie -- Old Houses / Phelan, Josie -- Strange Voice / Phelan, Josie -- Two Nuns / Phelan, Josie -- Two Hounds / Phelan, Josie -- Little Man / Phelan, Josie -- Herbs and Cures -- Cock-Fight Long Ago / Ryan, Kitty -- Proverbs -- Two Black Hounds / Comerford, Maire -- Hidden Treasure / Comerford, Maire -- Old Sayings / Ryan, Kitty -- Red Whistler / Ryan, Kitty -- Little White Horse -- Priest -- Dance -- Riddles -- Prayers -- Drunken Man / Neill, Kathleen O -- Windgap Steeplechase -- Chase in the Rath / Neill, Kathleen O -- Water-Horse / Neill, Kathleen O' -- St Martin's Eve / Neill, Kathleen O -- Mysterious Horse / Neill, Kathleen O' -- Sick Girl -- Local Legends / Neill, Kathleen O' -- Schoolmaster / Neill, Kathleen O' -- Old Prayers / Neill, Kathleen O' -- Beautiful Girl -- When Finn Mac Cumhail Bit the Dust / Ryan, Maureen -- Old Schools / Ryan, Maureen -- Mock Marriages / Ryan, Maureen -- The Giant / Ryan, Maureen -- Leiprechaun / Ryan, Maureen -- Superstition on the Windgap Hills / Ryan, Maureen -- Coffin / Neill, Josephine O' -- Dead Man Sits Up / Neill, Josephine O' -- Dead Priest -- Balls of Fire / Neill, Josephine O' -- Mysterious Man / Neill, Josephine O' -- Fairy Child -- Sick Frog / Neill, Josephine O' -- Leprechaun / Neill, Josephine O' -- Leprechaun / Neill, Josephine O' -- Holy Boy / Neill, Josephine O' -- Fairy House / Neill, Josephine O' -- Sunbeam / Neill, Josephine O' -- Seeking Her Fortune / Neill, Josephine O' -- Ghost Story / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Chapel in Windgap / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Ghost Story / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Piper / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Taking the Butter / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Fairy Cottage / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Fairyman / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Party / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Mass in the Penal Days / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Rath / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Fortune-Telling / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Holy Family / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Kiltinane Castle / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Power of a Priest / Fitzgerald, Mai -- True Story / Fitzgerald, Mai -- True Story of a Priest / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Old Houses / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Great Walkers / Fitzgerald, Mai -- World's Famous Champions / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Horse / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Old Prayers / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Fortune-Telling / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Poetry / Fitzgerald, Mai -- All Souls' Night / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Hedge-Schoolmasters / Fitzgerald, Mai -- White Lady / Houlihan, Mamie -- Ahenny Graveyard / Houlihan, Mamie -- Prayers -- Murdering / Ryan, Kitty -- Ghost Story / Neill, Annie O' -- Dead Man / Houlihan, Mamie -- Ghost Story / Blair, Florence -- Leipreacán / Blair, Florence -- Fairy Tale / Blair, Florence -- Banshee / Shea, Chrissie O' -- Famine Times -- Local Customs on May Day / Shea, Chrissie O' -- Fairy Forts / Shea, Chrissie O' -- Local Roads / Shea, Chrissie O' -- Cock-Fighting / Shea, Chrissie O' -- Tailors of this Locality / Shea, Chrissie O'
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.