School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Windfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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- (continued from previous page)About a quarter of a mile from my house there is a field called Ganoade Lohan. It got this name from a man by the name of Lohan that is buried there.
About half a mile from my house there is a village called Ganoade. It got this name because it lies within a bog and there is hardly a sod of good land in it.
About a quarter of a mile from this school there is a very long hill called Isgir, and it is said that it is part of the ditch that was built from Dublin to Galway to divide Ireland into two parts. - There are alot of place names called after old streames or bushes such as "Tom Árd" or mispronounced "Túaim Ard" about a mile and a half of our school. This village is called after an old bush which grew in a field(continues on next page)