School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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would go to Derrawee. The land is fair some of it is bad and more good.There are four old people over seventy in it. James Long Catherine Long Fanny Vaughan and Thomas Broderick.
- The road's long ago.
The road's long ago were very bad.They used to make through field's mountains and they used to keep going on them for a long time.After a while they dug up gardens and mountains and put stones on them and made ditches on each side of them.They kept going on them until harned and got good enough for them. - Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
