School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0242, Page 272
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- Erritt road is called "The New Line." It leads from Castlerea to Kilkelly, Co Mayo. Gorthaganny road leads from Ballinlough to Kilkelly. The road which leads from Tully to Erritt is called 'The Bog Road'. It is also known as 'Coilte dubha'. That road is made about fifty years. The people from the west used go by the road that is leading through Tully when on their journey to Dublin. The road that is leading to Tully is made about a hundred years.
Those roads were done as 'Relief Works' during the famine years. To make those roads the women used to carry cleeves on their backs which were filled with sand and the pay they got was eighteen pence a day.
In olden times rivers were crossed by planks. It was a custom in the olden days for the boys and girls in the district to gather together at the cross-roads. There they would hold a dance. Some of the boys played melodeons and some flutes. On St John's night the people make a bonfire at the crossroads.
In olden times the people used throw a stone in a place where a person would be killed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Duffy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon
