School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- There was a football team known as the "Quarry Miners" in the Slatequarries. They won their way to the All-Ireland Final but were there defeated
Once the Quarry Miners & Kilmoganny played in Hugginstown where the former won by a very small score.
At first there were twenty one players on a team. This was reduced to seventeen & then to the present number, fifteen.
Long ago, if two townlands were playing, they met half-way between the two places. Each side tried to kick the ball home, because that was the winning post.
- Collector
- Patrick Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cottrellstown, Co. Kilkenny
- One townland used to play another. They kicked to ball over ditches & rivers & all. Later on, goal-posts were got. These were not like the present-day ones as one consisted of a long pliable stick formed into a semi-circle with both ends stuck into the ground.P.T O
- Collector
- Patrick Noonan
- Gender
- Male
