School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Plunkett
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- (continued from previous page)ordinary boots. Some of them wore clogs. I never hear an account of a cross-country football match. The referee was a man named James Smith. He used a "Tory Whistle". There was no such thing then as the first half and the second half. They pitched a penny to decide which team would play with the wind, the opposite team got first kick. The football was generally made of hay. They made a hay rope and twisted into the shape of an ordinary football.
Sometimes they used a pig's bladder. It would be cleaned and washed out, then it was left up in the chimney and well smoked and aired for about three days. it used to be covered with leather.
- Collector
- Owen Alf O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Caffrey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Clonconor Glebe, Co. Cavan
