School: Cill Tártáin
- Location:
- Kiltartan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tuathaigh
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- Tillage takes up most time of the farmers here. Help is scarce, and few can afford to keep a servant-boy. Children assist largely at work on the farm. Oats, wheat and barley are sown. Oats is sold in the market, wheat supplies a big proportion of the flour used while barley is ground and is given as food to pigs and horses. The corn is ground in Gort, where there are five mills for that purpose - four worked by electricity and one by water. There was another grinding mill (Mangan's) worked by water at Kinincha some sixty years ago, but(continues on next page)