School: Cill a' Ghaimhrín (Killgevrin) (roll number 12002)
- Location:
- Kilgevrin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Proinsíos P. Ó Doláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0042, Page 0354
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- (continued from previous page)crowed in Milltown. They were trying to see who was the strongest man. There was a horse (and) cart with a ton of oats in it. Frank Connelly drew it from McDonnell shop which is now grogan shop up to the weighing sceal. He was also a great jumper. He would jump the highest gate in the parish. Martin Conncanon Russeltown was also a great jumper. He used to get four sods of turf and put them on the Kitchen table and put a board across them and jumped it in the kitchen. In Kilgervin there is a man named William Steed. He is a great singer He got a prize of a pound for sining cailín deas cruidte nambó at the feish in Tuam There is a man in Kilgervin named Nicholson he was a weaver
- Collector
- Kathleen Donelan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Donelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgevrin, Co. Galway
