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Rh was caman (pronounced as spelled; the a long). All through ancient Gaelic literature there is constant mention of hurling.

The following is a description of a game of hurling, from one of the best of the Ossianic tales, "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne," translated and published in Dublin, in 1880, by the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language:—

The first thing we hear about both Cuchullain