School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 230
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 230
- XML “Names of Places”
- XML “Names of Places”
- XML “Names of Places”
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
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - 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.
