School: St John's Monastery, Ballaghderreen (roll number 13709)
- Location:
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An Br. P. Ó Ceallaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: St John's Monastery, Ballaghderreen
- XML Page 282
- XML “How Footballs Were Made in My District Long Ago”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 282
How footballs were madeBarony: Costello
County: Roscommon
Related By: Mrs Downes, 80 years
Address: Ballaghaderreen
Written By: Louis Frain
Address: Ballaghaderreen
Age: 12 yrs
Date: 4-6-1938Long ago there were no factories for making footballs but they were home-made.
When an old donkey died it was skinned and the skin was tanned in a mixture of lime, water vinegar and washing-soda. Then the hair was pulled off the skin and it was taken to a cobbler. The cobbler used to cut it and sew it in the shape of a football cover.
A cows or pigs bladder was used as a bladder of the football. There was air put into it with a goose quill. These(continues on next page)- Collector
- Louis Frain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Downes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon