School: Cnoc na gCóirne
- Location:
- Knocknagornagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coinnigh
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- XML “Old Hurling and Football Matches”
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- XML “Giants Etc.”
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- The "Sliotar" was made of wood covered with leather or basil.The hurleys were made of furze bushes that had a twist at the roots.John Histon (Direen)
- The spite and bad feeling between certain districts in this parish date back to old football matches which being played without a referee often caused fightingPatrick Dalton (Knocknagorna)
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- Informant
- John Sheahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknagornagh, Co. Limerick
- There are numerous big rocks and stones in fields round about the quarry in Direen which are pointed out as "casts" from the quarry by the giants who lived there.
- Under many of the giants tables huge skeletons and enormous bones have been found so that all of them were not feasting places.