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    Béaloideas.
    "Games."
    About a hundred years ago there was a manner of hurling called "home to home hurling", and about sixty years ago there was "ditch to ditch hurling".
    This was the way "home to home hurling" was played. If Scariff and Mt. Shannon were playing a match they would be put into a large field with ditches on every side. Scariff would hurl towards Scariff and Mt. Shannon would hurl towards their own village. Whichever team would succeed in getting the ball over to the ditch near their own village twice out of three times they would be the winners. There were no goal posts and the ball was twice as large as the ordinary hurling ball of the present day.
    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
    Patsy O' Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Informant
    John Boland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tomgraney, Co. Clare