School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 221
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Goirtín
- XML Page 221
- XML “Great Walkers”
- XML “Great Walkers”
- XML “Great Walkers”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The women used to walk from Clough to Athenry, a distance of seven miles and come home with a sack of flour on their backs and have a sock knitted , by the time they reached home.
- There was a man from Clough going to Galway on business, walking. When near Oranmore he over took a man with a horse and cart. He offered him a seat on the cart and of course he was pleased. They went on for about half a mile. He thought he was driving rather slow and asked him to drive the horse faster. The man said he would not drive faster and he jumped off and walked. When he reached Galway he did his business and started for home. When about two miles from Galway on his return journey, he met his friend going in with his horse and cart.
- A woman be the name of Mrs Mac Gann who lived in Woodlawn, used to walk a distance of twelve miles carrying a child.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Willie Grady
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Galway
