School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)He would have an acre of hay mowed and be ready to go home at 7 p.m.
- A man by the name of Martin Mullins who lived in Mounthazel, came to Tample to cut a day's work of hay for the parish priest. He cut a field of one and a half acres of hay. The field is known as "Gort an t-sagairt"
- Collector
- Michael Carr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- W. Grady
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Galway
- Mass was said in Pat Hogan's wood in Clooncagh. The picture of the altar is cut out on the bark of a beech tree. Men were cutting trees about forty years ago in that wood and they refused to cut that tree.
- There is a field in Clough belonging to Joe Finnerty and a priest used to say Mass there and it is called "Style an Aifrinn". Mass was said in the open air or in the houses in olden times.
