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School: Tír na nEascrach

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Tiranascragh, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eamonn Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0058, Page 0251

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    “In the village of Ballinalug - (the town in the hollow) it is in a hollow under the Deerpark hill were 35 houses...”

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    In the village of Ballinalug - (the town in the hollow) it is in a hollow under the Deerpark hill were 35 houses according to John Redden an old age pensioner. In it lived a carpenter, tailor, weaver, shoemaker, blacksmith - The Hogan are still tailors, The Conroys are still smiths The Ryan who still live there had a shop. In the village now there are only six houses.
    In Tirnascragh there were up to eighty houses before the Famine there are only ten now.
    In the small parish there must have been upwards
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Redden
    Gender
    Male