School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fothannach, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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- (continued from previous page)3. The names of the local roads are The High Road which leads from Annagh to Fohenagh pump. The new line from the mill of Attyregan to the "High Road" .... There is an old mass path leading from Curley's to the Church.(continues on next page)
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The local roads were the main Road and the bye Road. From Galway to Dublin was the main Road. The roads are still used. There were roads made during the Famine and steep hills were cut and filled into hollows. They worked twelve hours a day and their pay was fourpence a day. There was a path from Hillswood to Abbeyview across Ballyglass. In Cromwell's time the roadway from Ballinasloe to Galway by Kilconnell branched north of the present one at Kilmalaw and came through Cromagh and Ellagh up by the Abbey and on to the present road at the cross-road at the cross of Kilconnell. The track can be seen through Ellagh and Cromagh. There was a Mass path from Clasneena across Lisard and out on the road at Cromagh.(continues on next page)
