School: Caisleán hAicéid
- Location:
- Castlehacket, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0025, Page 0064
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- Thatching Tommy Burke, Caherhue, Belclare, Co. Galway, was a good thatcher. The people of the surrounding districts used to employ him and they used to give him thirteen shillings a day.
In that way he was not long making money and after a year he had £350. He bought a new house in Galway and he lived there from the age of forty-five years until the year 1872 when he died.
- Collector
- Eddie Kearns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pollnahallia, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Tim Kearns
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Caltragh, Co. Galway
