School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)
- Location:
- Garbally, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 196
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- A small hill within two hundred yards of the School is known to the local people as "Cnoc Checily". An old woman named Cecily kept a "Sheebeen" there over a hundred years ago. It is probable that she distilled the "mountain dew" among the neighbouring sand-hills. On the night of the "Big Wind" Cecily's cabin was full of her usual customers. Some had not paid for their drinks when the hurricane swept away the roof. There was a rush to the door. But Cecily branded each defaulter with a pinch of ashes from the hearth, saying "I'll know you in the morning, a Ghrádh"
- Long ago there was a spring well in the Ffrench estate (Monivea, Co. Galway - recently bequeathed to the Irish Nation by Miss K. Ffrench who died in Harbin, Manchukuo).A policeman who stopped to take a drink there fell in and was drowned. Since then the well is known locally as
"Poll Gárda". - One of the sand-hills in Ballinamona about a half mile from the School is known locally as "Cnocán na Bó Sidhe". A poor man living in Doire Glasáin about(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Ballynamona, Co. Galway
