DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4758523
title: Windgap, Thomastown

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Windgap, Thomastown (school) (Windgap, Co. Kilkenny), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Bean Mhic Eoin.
description: Cutting Wood on the Rath / Hawe, Josephine -- Bhean a d'Éirigh ón Uaigh / Seaghadha, Cáit Ní -- Throwing Out Water At Night / Shea, Kitty O' -- Old Ruins / Murphy, Margaret -- Little Red Man / Quann, Mary Ann -- It is also said that in an old wood in Coolhill a woman committed suicide / Quann, Mary Ann -- Sprid / Britt, Seosamhín de -- Old Beliefs / Brett, Josephine -- Old Beliefs / Shea, Margaret O' -- Hare That Stole The Milk / Hawe, Josephine -- Fairies Hurling / Ryan, Maureen -- Buried Treasure / Norris, Peggy -- Crock of Gold / Norris, Peggy -- Dog Minding the Tree / Norris, Peggy -- Hidden Gold / Norris, Peggy -- Haunted House / Murphy, Stasia -- Ghost / Murphy, Stasia -- Ghost / Murphy, Stasia -- Hidden Treasure / Neill, Kathleen O' -- It is also said that a little woman was seen every night on the top of a hill / Neill, Kathleen O' -- King's Daughter / Ryan, Maureen -- Ghost / Ryan, Madge -- Hound Turns Into A Bull -- Ghost on Horseback -- Hidden Gold / Shea, Lizzie O' -- Robber Sergeant / Shea, Lizzie O' -- Take a Pinch / Shea, Lizzie O' -- Hidden Gold in Kiltracy -- Hurling Match -- Franey the Miser / Phelan, Josie -- Old Crafts / Phelan, Josie -- Marriage Customs / Phelan, Josie -- Old Cures / Norris, Peggy -- Cross Day / Norris, Peggy -- Fairy Forts / Norris, Peggy -- Local Proverbs / Quanne, Mary Ann -- Cutting Briars on the Fairy Fort / Quanne, Mary Ann -- Old Crafts / Neill, Kathleen O' -- Old Sayings / Ryan, Kitty -- Old Crafts / Ryan, Kitty -- Stories / Ryan, Kitty -- Mass Paths / Ryan, Kitty -- Local Place Names / Ryan, Kitty -- Holy Well / Ryan, Kitty -- Herbs / Ryan, Kitty -- Fiery Spirit / Phelan, Josie -- Dead Hunt / Phelan, Josie -- Local Customs on May Day / Shea, Margaret O' -- Hidden Gold in Garryricken / Murray, Josephine -- Weather-Lore / Comerford, Maire -- Local Proverbs / Comerford, Maire -- Festival Customs / Comerford, Maire -- Hidden Treasure / Jones, Teresa -- Church at Windgap -- Kilamery Old Church / Ryan, Kitty -- Local Forges / Ryan, Kitty -- Tale of the Olden Times / Fitzgerald, Mai -- True Story of a Foxglove / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Local Ruin / Fitzgerald, Mai -- Hidden Treasure / Landy, Biddy -- Hidden Treasure / Houlihan, Mary -- How Sliabh na mBan Got Its Name / Houlihan, Mamie -- Proverbs / Houlihan, Mamie -- Plan of Campaign -- Fairies' Works / Ryan, Kitty -- Great Fortune / Ryan, Kitty -- Dead Man / Ryan, Kitty -- Local Cures / Ryan, Margaret -- Old Forts -- St Stephen's Day -- Lucky Horseshoe -- Jackie the Lantern -- Local Fields -- Fairy Woman / Neill, Josephine O' -- Fairy Child / Neill, Josephine O' -- the Sick Frog / Neill, Josephine O' -- Old Sayings / Neill, Josephine O' -- Fairy Castle / Murray, Josephine -- White Lady at Castletown / Murray, Josephine -- Fairy Glens / Comerford, Maire -- Three Soldiers -- Old Tailors -- Fr Purcell's Adventure / Quann, Mary Ann -- Black and White Hound / Quann, Mary A. -- Thomas Kearney a native of Curracth often went visiting to a farmer named Marcel Bowers at Garryricken House. / Quanne, Mary A. -- Proverbs -- Jackie the Lantern -- Funeral -- Blackthorn Bush -- Shadow -- Oak Block -- Micky Dillon's Auld Mule / Jones, Teresa -- Black Lamb / Jones, Teresa -- Proverbs / Landy, Biddy -- Riddles / Landy, Biddy -- Forge -- Have It Yourself Or Be Without It -- Coffin / Morris, Peggy -- Proverbs -- Back to Butlerwood / Shea, Lizzie O' -- Holy Family / Shea, Margaret O' -- Old Ruin -- Another Ruin -- Two Black Hounds / Comerford, Maire -- Sleeping Beauty / Ryan, Kitty -- Ghost Story / Murray, Josephine -- Old Ruins / Neill, Kathleen O' -- There once lived a Protestant minister in Kilamory and he had a Catholic girl working with him. -- Blind Woman / Neill, Kathleen O' -- Fairy Woman / Neill, Kathleen 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 -- Fairy / Murray, Josephine -- Dead Hunt / Murray, Josephine -- Mysterious Man / Murray, Madge -- Nightman / Murray, Madge
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.