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1. Folklore - How Sports Were Held in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   a benefit to my grandfather as he was paid for the field.

   All kinds of amusements were indulged in namely, boxing, wrestling, racing, jumping, singing, and dancing. There was gamecock fighting and gamecocks were brought from the surrounding counties.

   Hundreds use to come to support their own representatives.

   

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2. Folklore - Boxing

   

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   In olden times boxing was a very common game. The best boxer in my district was a man by the name of Pat Bohan of McLoughra, Mohill. He was about five feet ten inches in height. He worked in England. There were two hundred men working with him and he was the best boxer amongst them. One monring a man named Jack Bulger came a distance of forty.

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