School: Mullach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 3928)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Ó Sandair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0623, Page 435
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- About sixty five years ago there was a great hurling match played on the strand at Doughmore near Doonbeg. This match attracted a big crowd of people as it was a challenge match between the parishes of Kilmurry I'Brekane and Killard. The game started on the bounds of the two parishes, Kilmurry I'Brickane and Doonbeg. There were no goals and the game was to bring the ball from one parish to another.The game was played on the sand and the pitch was over 3/4 of a mile in length. There were twenty-one men on each side. An old man named Stack was captain of the Kilmurry team and a man named Blake was captain of the Killard team. After about two hours tussling John Kinnane of the Kilmurry team succeeded in taking the ball, and hurling it on before until he drove it across the stream bounding the two parishes. This gave the game to Kilmurry.John Kinnane of Cregane was the hero of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Saunders
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Clare
- Informant
- James Scanlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Clare
