School: Cloonkeen Kerrill (roll number 15429)
- Location:
- Clonkeenkerrill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Theresa M. Hurley
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- 5. There is a green hill in John Hubans field Gurteen, Woodlawn, County Galway where a priest used to say Mass during the Penal times. The people around the district supplied the priest with food and clothes because at that time a priest had to wear ordinary clothes. In this field also there lived a piper andit was afterwards call Poll an Piobaire.
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- Informant
- Michael Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Galway