School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0034
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- (continued from previous page)from Cuairt and one of them saw a light in it and the man told the other and the light quenched. It is said that there were someone digging the foundation. Then the seven churches were built in Clonmacnoise. There is a lough call "Poll Mór" because there is a hole in the middle of it with no bottom to it. There is a bush called the whispering bush because when the people are coming from mass whatever they have to say they say it there. We have a field called "Cura hill" and there is another called "Gally Mór". There is a field called "deer park". It belonged to the Nugent family because they kept their deer in it. it is surrounded by high walls.
- Collector
- Maureen Gohery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Gohery
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Galway
