School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0004
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“In the year nineteen eighteen my father was working in a quarry in Kilshanvy in the borders of the County Mayo.”
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