Carew in his Survey notes that goals were used in the east but in the Cornish speaking areas of the west the aim was to throw the ball 'to the country'. Hurling balls are the size of cricket balls ...

A man who found a Northern Ireland boy's sliotar (hurling ball) on the Scottish coastline - eight months after it went missing off the Donegal coast - has said he is amazed it travelled so far.

The word “puck”—as in “hockey puck”—comes from the Irish “poc,” which means “to poke” and is what hurling players do to the sliotar (slit-hur), the hard, leather-covered ball.