School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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- There is a monument in Tynagh graveyard to John Smith Rahan who was a great hurler and there is a hurl and ball drawn out on it. He is dead about twenty eight years.
- Collector
- Annie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappacur, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cappacur, Co. Galway
- About fifty years ago there was a match played between Tynagh and Ballinakill. They played east and west. There were thirty men on each side. They played for ten pounds of a bet. The east men won it. They (east) used to hurl each side of a public road. Men walked seven or eight miles and hurled after. There were from five to six hundred people looking on. There was a man sixty five years whose name was Hynes and there was not a man in the whole field able to run him. The east men brought the ball about two miles through ditches and fields. There were no football matches out that time.
- Collector
- May Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappacuilla, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway