Fair Green, 1890s

Returning from an afternoon of sports. on the Fair Green "where the young men and boys engage in match games of hurling and football once or twice a week in the season of outdoor athletic sports. The people are quitting the field, the games having already terminated...The play ground is one of the most commodicus in the island".

Taken from John F. Finerty, Ireland in Pictures, Chicago: J. S. Hyland, 1896. Many thanks to Prof Terry Ballard of Quinnipiac University.