School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
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- Gort na dTíobh Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 157
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“Friaryland, Gort na Cealtra, Sgeicheach na mBruacaí (badges)...”
Friaryland, Gort na Cealtra, Sgeicheach na mBruacaí (badges) There were 3 monasteries but my father R.I.P. showed me where stood the one in Gortna Cealtra. This was 100s of years ago and it may be thousands. Yet this is sound and true for the planks and traces of the roads which connected the three are yet to be seen. No 3 was a monastery in Timicat in Maddens field where there is a fort to be seen. They had a road made right through from Timical, Knockmaskehill & Cloonculane bogs. Ruin's are still to be seen and traces of the roadway for road was of split oak planks stretched on surface of bog and staked each side. Traces seen to this day. This road or remains of it is now sunk 6 or 8 feet in the bogs. Roadway sinking down. It comes thro' our land & Feeneys land. We opened a hole there once and found boards an inch thick. More than likely monks made these roads. P.T.O.(continues on next page)