School: Curreeny, Dolla, Nenagh (roll number 16486)
- Location:
- Curreeny, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: James Conlon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 044
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- The teams that played here were Curreeny, Kilcommon, Foilnamon and Templederry. There were 30 men on each side and the best men of the locality were usually picked. The match was played on The Rea in Murray Hayes’s long field. Sometimes the match was played between the townlands and finally and usually once a year between the parishes of Kilcommon and Templederry. Invariably Templederry won. The Ryan of Kilcommon and the Kennedys of Curreeny were the best players. The score was 7 goals and 1 point to 2 goals.
There was never a football match here between the townlands but on several occasions between Kilcommon and Templederry. The Curreeny people having an old grudge (political) against the Kilcommons usually took a prominent part and always kicked the Kilcommons home. As one old man put it:-
“The Kilcommons would be for a week pulling the nails of the Curreeny boots out of their a – s.”
The players wore blue gansies and their Sunday trousers and boots. They pied the trousers at their boots with strings. In some of the matches(continues on next page)
