Neville Furlong 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 Connacht. He was an Irish Army captain. Furlong played for the Ireland team in 1992, winning 2 caps during the 1992 Ireland tour of New Zealand. He scored one try for Ireland in his second test match against New
Furlong leading to serious complications in trade, taxation, etc. Around the year 1300, by royal decree England standardized a long list of measures. Among the important units of distance and length at the time were the foot, yard, rod (or pole), furlong, and the mile. The rod was defined as yards or feet, and the mile was eight furlongs, so the definition of the furlong became 40 rods and that of the mile became 5,280 feet (eight furlongs/mile times 40 rods/furlong times feet/rod). A description from 1675 states, "Dimensurator or Measuring Instrument whereof the mosts usual has been the Chain, and