School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)Rayan aged about 37 lives in Leggah.
- Hurling was not in this district long ago but there was football. About fifty years ago there was a great football match in Ryans field of Castletown. There were two teams playing Rathkenny and Castletown. It lasted for one hour. The players were dressed in their plain clothes. Castletown scored four goals and Rathkenny three goals. There were about two hundred watching the game.
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