School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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- There was an old school where Martin Naughtons now lives in old times. The old people tell us the old people people of Woodfield went to Ballinlass and some to Boyanagh.
- Collector
- Frances Heneghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodfield, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr W Heneghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Woodfield, Co. Galway
- Long ago there was an old school in Castle and when the old people were going to school that time they had no school first then they built a school It was in winter they built it They covered it with straw. The children would almost perish out on the ditch under a big tree. They had to bring a bundle of straw every morning to cover it for a long time(continues on next page)
