School: An Clochar, Carraig Thuathail
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 293
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- Games I PlayGobs, Skipping, Hide and go seek, Hun Bland man's buff, Marbles, Pickie, Duck and the gran[-] Four cornered fool, How many birds in a bush, High jumps, Racing and Bad egg.My favourite game is bogs. Five stones must be got. Then four placed in the form of a square on the ground and the person playing must take the other and throw it up in the air then catch up one out of the square and catch the other one coming down. If it falls on the ground the person is out. Then the next one will take the gobs and arrange the stones in a square and do the same thing until she is out.This is another way it is played. Array the four stones in a square and get another stone. Then throw it up in the air, tip the ground with your hand catch the stone coming down and say "Sweep the Kitchen". Then throw up the stone in the air catch up a stone out of the square, catch the stone coming down and say "Sweep underneath it" Then throw up one, put the other on the ground, catch the other one coming down and say, "And place it there".
- Collector
- Elsie Twomey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballintubbrid West, Co. Cork
