School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 253
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- These are the games we boys play in this district: hurling, a little football, hunting, fishing, sliding in winter, snowballing, "fox", running, and high-jumping, marbl[e]s, "Johney Whalesman", pegging tops, frog leaping, making "cribs" for catching birds in winter, picking hazel nuts in autumn, and tee-totem.
Hurling and football- We play both these games in the school playground in summer when the ground is dry. Some years ago there was a nice school-team here but now we have not boys enough for one.
Hunting- On Sundays, during the winter months, a number of boys meet at some place settled on the Friday before at school. Every boy has a dog or two of some kind; we often have greyhounds, terriers, sheepdogs and perhaps a cocker or two, often even a setter or pointer, and a number of dogs that it would be hard to say what breed they are. We then "beat" the countryside for a mile or two all round us. As rabbits are very plentiful, we meet a great many "hunts". Between barking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
