Neville Furlong Zealand on 6 June 1992. He was the last Irish player to score a try worth four points as rugby changed its scoring system later in 1992. Furlong died on 26 September 2017 following a long battle against cancer. Neville Furlong Neville Furlong (10 June 1968 – 26 September 2017) was an Irish rugby union international player who played as a winger. Furlong initially played Gaelic football, and was selected at both minor and under-21 levels for Wexford. He attended University College Galway, where he developed an interest in rugby and played for the university team as well as for
Furlong because turning a team of oxen pulling a heavy plough was difficult. This offset the drainage advantages of short furrows and meant furrows were made as long as possible. An acre is an area that is one furlong long and one chain (66 feet or 22 yards) wide. For this reason, the furlong was once also called an acre's length, though in modern usage an area of one acre can be of any shape. The term furlong, or shot, was also used to describe a grouping of adjacent strips within an open field. Among the early Anglo-Saxons, the rod was