School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 385
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- About forty six years ago the hurling began in Farrahy. The hurlers had a great opinion of themselves at first but when a team challenged they became very cowardly. The team that rose up against them was Oldcastletown. They had a good sturdy team well fitted out for the day.They had the best slippers for running purposes made especially for the job. The hurleys were called Spacks. Both sides hurled and Oldcastletown beat them on their own ground. After Farrahy had prepaired the ground and had put up the goal posts and the strangers to come in and beat them by many goals and points was very disappointing "but every beginning is weak".They were challenged again by Shanballymore. Farahy were fully sure they would win this match and so were the Shanballymore fellows.The latter were a bit too old and were not good enough for the Farahy hurlers. The descendants of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hannon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Durane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
