School: Dún an Ochta (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Eyrecourt, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Mac a' Bhuidhe Úna Ní Laighidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0056, Page 0145
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- (continued from previous page)there are now but a few houses. The names of the people who lived in this stretch mentioned opposite the Boy's School were:- Patrick Killeen, Thos. Madden, Augustine Concannon, Ml. Madden, John Madden, Jn Donohue, John Connor, John Summers, Thos. Conroy, Patrick Tierney, John Curley, John Duffy, Jas. Sweeney, Tom McEvoy. On the school side (where no house is now but 2) lived Thos. Gavin, James Barnot, Patrick Kelly, and the present school-house. At this time the English Government gave free emigration to Canada, and an offer of £2 per head to all those who went. The people took the offer right away, as their prospects seemed anything but first rate, and left their little homes, which by degrees fell into wreck and ruin. Shop-keepers of the town completed the knocking down of these houses, and took over the gardens attached. "Silver St" was the name(continues on next page)
