School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)
- Location:
- Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 488
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- There were no roads long ago like there are now. Instead the people used to go over the mountains and through the fields, by paths and ciseacha.
The first road that was made in this district was the Gallow-Hill road. It was the people of the place that made it, as the land-lord (Old Bourke) would not give them any money, and would not let them apply for it to the Government. That road was going from GallowsHill to Ballina.
There is another toad that was made from Gallows Hill to Carrowmacshane; it is called an bóthar glas. It was made ten years after the Gallows Hill road was made.
The road that is running outside of our school is called(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerrard Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gallowshill, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gallowshill, Co. Mayo
