School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 405
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- (continued from previous page)(2)couple of miles away and whichever parish would hurl it to their own home would win the day. That was when hurling first started. In years later they fined down the game and confined it to a certain field that was so many yds long and so many yrds broad. They had posts of pine at each end for goal-posts. There were 21 men on either side in olden days. Whichever side put out the most goals won the game. After a time they reduced the team to 17 men when the people who were hurling would not take their time at the game. Now they have only 15 men. They were dressed in their own parish colours. The teams were generally called after a saint. The balls were 4ozs in weight. A crook stick was the hurley they used. The hurling matches were held in Mungret in those days."
- This is how hurling was played in olden days. As many as could play were picked. They had no goal posts. It was the parishes that played that time. On one occasion when the Parishes of Patrickswell and Ballybrown were playing, it was a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Hartigan
- Gender
- Female
