School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 04_041
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- (continued from previous page)asked him where he was going and told her.Then she told him that he would have enemies all the days of his life.
- long ago there were alot of old houses around the place.The names of some of them Are Nagles Sullivans Ryan's Glynn's Roughan's Singens Campells Mack's Keatings Brodericks Walshes O'Dea's.Nagles had there built in a very wet spot down in a hole and all the houses that time were built of dobh -bhuidhe and roofed with scraws and thatched.They used to have very queer old houses that time .The floors used to be made of dobh-buidhe and there would big holes in the floors.They used to have old pictures hanging on the walls(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
