School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)was as many houses in one part as there is in all Blindwell nowadays. All houses long ago were thatched now mostly all are slated. The most common name in Blindwell is Welshe. Blindwell is called after a well which was blinded. There are four people over seventy years whose names are,
Michael Colleran
Mary Corcoran,
Miles Burke
Hugh Conern
Blindwell
Cloghan's Hill
Tuam,
Co. Galway
They can speak both English and Irish. There is one ruin "The ice house".
Long ago people went to America from Blindwell. There is a turlough in it.
It is said that a landlord wished to dry his own land. He let the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Heneghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Heneghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway