School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)and on letting him go she said "imthigh a dhiabhal as seo". Boys that go visiting very often get them.
- I did not hear of any old school, but James Heneghan (dead) went to school to the Kilconly Catholic church. He went there for a few years, then he changed to a Catholic church in Kilgevrin.
After some time he changed to Caras Catholic church. He did not go to school to Caras for very long as the Irish children were been punished for the Irish language though it was not a national school.
He was taught in Kilgevrin by a man named Pádhraigh Longe. Some of the teachers were from the district more teachers were strangers. The teachers stayed some weeks with each child. - The Kirwans, who were landlords of Blindwell, evicted twenty six householders in one of our fields.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Heneghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Heneghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Blindwell, Co. Galway
