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School: Cnoc an Chuilinn, An Ráth Mhór (roll number 9871)

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Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
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Nóra, Bean Uí Dhuinnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0324, Page 238

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    The games they used play long ago were football hurling and handball. Long ago the people of three or four townlands used gather together and the ball used be thrown in between them and the people of each townland tried to carry it home. Sometimes they used kick it from town to town.
    They used play hurling also, the way they used play it was to stand two sticks with a certain distance between them at one end of the field and two more on the other side the same way.
    An equal number of men on each side playing
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sean Long
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knocknaloman, Co. Cork
    Informant
    John Long
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Knocknaloman, Co. Cork