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and Finn, the great chiefs, is in connection with hurling, when they were mere children.

Mr. T. O'Neill Russell, in an interesting letter to me on this subject, says:—

"I find from a very old man from the county Clare, that in his time, 'and ever and always afore him,' great games of hurley, between counties or parishes, were played with twenty- No 26.
MILITARY FORK. Distinctly Irish weapon (iron; drawing one-third the actual size). one men on each side,—mōr-sheisir air lar, mōr-sheisir air y-cūl a's mōr-sheisir air fuadach; that is, 'seven (literally a big six) in the middle.'"

"In the 'Book of Rights,' it is recorded, that comāin, or hurleys, are mentioned among some of the presents from the