School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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- Jim Horan, Cloonacusha was able to carry two hundred weight of flour under each arm off a horse's car and into a store. Mary Fallon, Ballyleen, Tynagh walked to Galway a distance of thirty miles for flax-seed and walked back again and sowed it after coming home the same day.
There was a woman named Mrs Keon of Gurrane, Tynagh who milked her cows in the morning and walked to Galway and was back again to milk the cows in the evening.
A woman named Mrs Donnellan, Ballinasmall, Tynagh walked seven miles to Portumna and on her return carried a hundred of flour on her back.
There was a man named Thomas Gohery of Gurrane, Tynagh, who had a bad leg. He used to jump off the cart out over the horse's head. John Donlan, Ballinasmall, Tynagh who is still alive carried a stone roller across three fields. Its weight was about four hundred. He rolled an acre of ground the same day pulling it after him.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Feebrack or Nutgrove, Co. Galway
- Collector
- John Costelloe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Galway
- Collector
- May Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappacuilla, Co. Galway
- Collector
- Teresas Broderick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Laurence Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Highstreet, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Feebrack or Nutgrove, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Costelloe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Galway