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School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

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Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
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S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 262

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    under an organization like the G.A.A., and it was usually a townsland versus townsland game, and there was always bitter rivalry between them. Two of the bitterest rivals of the time were "the Windmill" and Boher.
    Football, however, was the game which they always played. The football matches took place on Garthy Hill and the Garthy team was considered the best team of the time.
    The men from the different parishes collected, and two old men selected the teams, - twenty from each parish.
    Then a football was procured, usually a home made one, about as big as an ordinary football. The players were not dressed as
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mona Montgomery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Paddy Scott
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Westmeath