used to come in the same way with a basket. She was well known around Cappataggle district.

soon after the final was played. The winners would then become county champions, thus earning the right to represent their county against the champions of any other county. We then see that a county team was not composed of the pick of the players of the various teams, but the team that won the county championship.Cappataggle hurling teams were twice county champions and New Inn once reached the final to be beaten by Cappataggle. The game was played in Kiltulla before a large crowd. There were 18 players on each side and the game lasted for one and a half hours.

Owen Hynes, Oatfield, Cappataggle, used to weave flannel and linnen but he does not weave now. Socks and jumpers, caps, gloves and shirts are knitted locally. Black clothes are worn for funerals and bright clothes are worn for weddings.

Local fairs are held in Cappataggle, New Inn, Ballinasloe and Loughrea. Sometimes the buyers buy cattle before the fair. When the bargain

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fighting, the 12th of July being the last.
During that day and English gunner by the name of Trench, acting on the information that Syn Ruth wore a silk hat and rode a white horse, observed the commander moving through the lines. He trained his gun carefully on him, so carefully that he is said to have used his gloves as a help to getting the gun sights into accurate position. "The hat is off" shouted an observer after the shot was fired. " I'll wager that the head is in it" said Trench, and he proved to be correct .
A bush, known as "Syn Ruths bush" marked the spot where he fell. A remnant of the Irish army was supposed to to have made a last unsuccessful stand at a place near Cappataggle, on land now owned by a Mr.Finn (mail road). The line of retreat probably lay along what is now only partly the site of an old road be leading from the hill of Aughrim, past past Mr.Tevelans house, through Mrs.Claffeys, across Clonskeen, through the Leacht and through Killalaghton burial ground and thence to Cappataggle and Loughrea.
The English are said to have

The goals were 120 yards apart, and there were no cross-boards so there were no points. The game was keenly contested for the teams were evenly matches, but Cappataggle emerged victorious by the narrow margin of one goal.
The outstanding players for the winners were Gibbey Jennings Tim Hough and Bob Dilleen who had already won fame on the county team.
The ball used in that time was made of corks and horse-hair and had a leather cover. It was almost twice as large as the hurling ball of to-day, but was very light. A pigs bladder covered with cloth was used as a foot-ball.