School: Baile an Doire (roll number 15156)
- Location:
- Ballinderry, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 287
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- (continued from previous page)scientific games in the world. Goals are the only scores allowed at the start of the games and later on a ball going over the cross-bar was counted a point. At one period five "overs" counted a point. Down through the ages the literature of Eire is replete with accounts of the game of hurling. Kilbride hurling team hurled in a special field called "Sliabh Ruadh" There is no doubt that the game of hurling is the oldest field game in the world. Hurling was known as "iomain." The hurlers were called "iomawnees". The goals were called "baire". The hurl was called "caman".
Brian O Higgins sings:When comes the day as come it must
That Ireland's rule of greed and lust
Shall lie, all broken, in the dust
We'll still have Irish hurling men:
Then here's to her, the land we love
Each grand old hill and glen and grove,
Her plains below, her skies above,
And best of all her hurling men.
"In later days, when hope seemed dead,(continues on next page)
