School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)a little house for ten years. when he died he left the place to Thomas Carr.
- Near the Tample cross-roads is a wall which is called the "flaxhouse". A fire used to be kept burning there for drying the flax in this district. Flax was grown in Ireland long ago.
"Gort a Mhainín" in Tample
It is so called because it was owned by a man named Mannion. - Poll Tuairín or Toirín.
It is a field beside a river. The people used to was their linen there. There is a hole there where the river goes underground and beside this grows a xlump of little bushes.
