School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)
- Location:
- An Lagach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Francis Gallagher
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- About fifty years ago the young men and boys used to play hurling in my district. The game was locally called a game of "camans". The hurleys were not like the present day hurleys but were ordinary sticks with a crook at the end. The expression is still used in my locality - a caman stick. The sticks used in the game of camans were made of either of whin, ash or blackthorn.When a number of boys met on a Sunday evening and proposed a game, two were appointed captains. They tossed up a coin to see who would get the first call. Then they went away a short distance from the crowd ane each took their call in turn until they had the boys evenly divided into two teams.The game was called a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Lagach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Thomas Sheridan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Lagach, Co. an Longfoirt