School: Lochán Mór
- Location:
- Loughane More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 041
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- (continued from previous page)the ball may have been a little heavier.
The game was also played in a field or on a strand but lines had to be drawn to represent the fences of the road.
A famous "trap-ground" in the olden days was Tráigh na gCloch - despite its name. The snag is that the strand was one time covered with sand to the extent of about 4 acres.
A priest living at Allihies asked Downey the landlord, who lived at Cnocán Muanair [?] in Garnish quite near the strand for permission to take a couple of boat-loads of sand to be used as(continues on next page)
