School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Chapel. Some of these famous goalers were Tom, Jim, and Richard MacElligott, Humphry, Michael, and Terence McMahon, Tom Curtin, Raymore, Dick Mahony, Rathanny, Jim and Dan Dunne Rathanny, the others I can't remember but they were all in the parish. It was a very hot goal of rough and tumble as there were very little rules at that time.
The Kerry team brought the honours and the land-lord went up on a stage making a speech praising his own team and saying the "Kerry fellows were very rough but the land-lord whispered something to his own men and one of them by the name of Humpry McMahon put his head between the Cork land-lords legs and walked out between the crowd with him on his shoulders and placed him down gently on the field. John Fitzgerald, Tulliguabbeen, Castleisland. About 50 years
- Collector
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullagubbeen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Fitzgerald
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Tullagubbeen, Co. Kerry
