School: Gusserane
- Location:
- Ráth na gCosarán, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Mrs Corish
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0872, Page 167
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- (3) Long ago football and hurling were played in a different way to what they are played to-day. Instead of playing from goal to goal as they do nowadays they played from ditch to ditch. Thirty years ago one of the roughest matches of the day was played in Foulksmills between a team from Taghmon and another from Campile. The match which lasted for two and a half hours was supposed to be the roughest ever played in the district.They fought and hurt each other until there was only two men were left on the field. Campile taking the victory by four "overs" to three. The following is a song composed in rememberance of the match.
"Last Sunday morning as the birds in the trees they did singI bundled my old brogues together and made my way down to Foulksmills,(continues on next page)
