School: Ballinvally (C.) (roll number 932)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Nic Shiomóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)Before the game was played with a leather ball, they often used a ball made from straw rope, made by an expert at the business, and no such things as goal or point posts but from ditch to ditch and even if the field was forty perches long. The score was called a "beavey", which would be when the ball was kicked against the ditch.
- 1 Where there's a will, there's a way
2 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
3 What you never had, you'll never miss
4 Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
5 Wilful waste makes woeful want(continues on next page)
