School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown

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1. Hurling and Football Matches

   

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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.

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   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Dunne

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cottrellstown, Co. Kilkenny

2. Hurling and Football Matches

   

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   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.

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