School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 144
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- (continued from previous page)fire would be burning.
- Every-one would take a halfburned coal and throw it into a field near the house. Some people used to bring milk and meal and boil it and hand it around.
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- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
- There was a blacksmith living near Knockmaskahill by the name of Broghan. He had a horse shoe down in the fire and he saw a woman coming at Pete Murray's. He threw the shoe out on the road and when the woman came along she picked up the shoe and(continues on next page)
