School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 051
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clonlara
- XML Page 051
- XML “Hurling”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Hurling 7-3-'38Hurlling as played today is a much different game to that of long ago.
Up to the end of the last Century when the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded there was no fixed rules with regard to Hurling.In this locality for instance, the game of hurling was played in a most peculiar fashion.
The two opposing teams each consisting of all the young men of a certain district, met midway between the two districts. There they lined up perhaps fourty aside equipped with heavy sticks turned at the end which they used for hurleys. The ball which was usually about fourteen ounces in weight was then thrown in among the players and the side tht succeeded in getting the ball home - thay is to its own locality - was declared the winner.
Later on the rule that no team shoud consist of more hen twentyone players was adopted. This was in force until about 1894 in which year was changed to seventeen aside.
About 1921 the strenght of a team was again lessened for in that year it was changed to fifthteen aside.
The winners played the winners of another parish team thereby competing until(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonass, Co. Clare
