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School: Corratober

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Corratober, Co. Cavan
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Ss. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 170

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    The games which the people used to play long ago are different to the games they play now. One very popular game that used to be played was camans.
    They called the goals "hales" and anything that used to go wide was called a "cual hale". They had no points. The field in which this game used to be played was about fifty yds. long and fifty yds. in breadth. The ball they had was a block of wood and they could not lift it in their hand. They used to hit it with a caman stick. No one was allowed to stay in the hales. Everyone had to play out until the ball would be
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Mulligan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Enaghan, Co. Longford
    Informant
    John Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisraherty, Co. Longford