Paille-Maille Traditional Geocache
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One theory of the origin is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for "ball and mallet".
The second theory, which seems to have stronger credentials, is that croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches. Records show the similar game of "crookey" being played at Castlebellingham in 1834, which was introduced to Galway in 1835 and played on the bishop's palace garden, and in the same year to the genteel Dublin suburb of Dun Laoghaire (then Kingstown) where it was first spelt as "croquet".
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(Decrypt)
Crttvat bhg, vf jura lbhe onyy ebyyf guebhtu gur ubbc naq uvgf gur fgvpx.