School: Baile an Mhóta (roll number 16260)
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Beárnais
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- Football was a very popular sport around here long ago and it is still played on a large scale by young and old. There is a different method employed in playing the game now and playing it long ago.
For example in Gaelic football fifteen players usually complete a team nowbut long ago seventeen players formed a team so that instead of having thirty players on the field there were thiry-four.
English football was also played by many and in the town there was a number of local teams including the "Holy terrors." Soccer was just played the same as it is now and some old soccer players are still alive.
In scoring a point in Gaelic football a player must kick the ball over the bar, now, but in some cases long ago a different method for scoring one was used. An extra pole was placed about five yards from(continues on next page)
