School: Tuairín Chathail (B.) (roll number 10392)

Location:
Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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  1. About fifty years ago there was a great football match played in Lacka in the field where the creamery is built now. There were thirteen men on each side. They were picked from Tureencahill (Gneeveguilla, Co Kerry) and Newquarter (Gneeveguilla Co. Kerry.) on the one side and Mountainfant and Lacka (Cork) on the other side. At three-quarter time both teams were even, but then the Kerry boys got a lead, and there was great excitement for the last quarter, and it finished up with a good score for Kerry.
    One of the Kerry boys, Jerry Twomey (Tureencahill Rathmore Kerry) got so excited that he kicked the ball right across the Blackwater. In those days they used to play in their ordinary clothes, and without boots. All the Kerry team rushed through the river, and never stopped, until they brought the ball right in to Tureencahill (contd.)
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tom Fleming
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Michael Fleming
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry