There was a game of hurling in this district some time gone by. A team from Claregalway was playing a team, Castlegar. There were fifteen men on either side. They cap-tains were Leahy and Flaherty. The men came from Claregalway and places near and from Castlegar. The game was played in the Sport's Field. There were two parishes playing. Before a large crowd Castlegar won by a small

is quite probable there was a bridge or plank across the stream at Mayfield. The same word comes into Clare Galway which in Irish is Baile Clár na Gaillimhe. There is a river and a bridge across it at Claregalway. The river is known as the Clare river and flows from Dunmore through Tuam and Claregalway to Lough Corrib. It may be mentioned that it passes through a level country and may derive its name from clár a plain. It also means a board or plank.
There are two small lakes near Claremorris but the original names have been lost. One is now Boher-garr lake and the other Mob. Hill lake. There is a small island in each lake which are the remains of Crannógs or lake dwellings. These are supported on wooden piles standing in the water.

margin. The best players were Flaherty for Castlegar and Leahy and Quinn for Claregalway. Some of the players were hurt on the field. The young men long ago used to play in what were called "parish matches" this was a game played between two parishes and the length was known as the playing-pitch. They wore hurling-caps and a colour represented each village. The people also wore jerseys when they played. There were usually twenty-one players on either side. They were used to having a leather ball which used to be bigger than how and this was made by the shoemaker. The hurls then were larger than now and they were "spliced". The other games they played in the open-air were handball, rounders, bowls, throwing the hammer. They played all those games at the cross-roads and there were large crowds present at these gatherings. After the sports they usually held "cross-road-dancers".