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School: Tigneatha

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Tynagh, Co. Galway
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Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0009

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    Jim Horan, Cloonacusha was able to carry two hundred weight of flour under each arm off a horse's car and into a store. Mary Fallon, Ballyleen, Tynagh walked to Galway a distance of thirty miles for flax-seed and walked back again and sowed it after coming home the same day.
    There was a woman named Mrs Keon of Gurrane, Tynagh who milked her cows in the morning and walked to Galway and was back again to milk the cows in the evening.
    A woman named Mrs Donnellan, Ballinasmall, Tynagh walked seven miles to Portumna and on her return carried a hundred of flour on her back.
    There was a man named Thomas Gohery of Gurrane, Tynagh, who had a bad leg. He used to jump off the cart out over the horse's head. John Donlan, Ballinasmall, Tynagh who is still alive carried a stone roller across three fields. Its weight was about four hundred. He rolled an acre of ground the same day pulling it after him.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Cullen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Feebrack or Nutgrove, Co. Galway
    Collector
    John Costelloe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lecarrow, Co. Galway
    Collector
    May Quirke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cappacuilla, Co. Galway
    Collector
    Teresas Broderick
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisduff, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Laurence Broderick
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Lisduff, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Michael Leahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Highstreet, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Cullen
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Feebrack or Nutgrove, Co. Galway
    Informant
    William Costelloe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Lecarrow, Co. Galway