School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Fionnmhacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 014
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Inis (B.)
- XML Page 014
- XML “Games We Play”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There are many different kinds of games we play, both indoor and outdoor games. The outdoor games we play are, marbles, conquers, Hide and seek, tig, time, rounders, handball, catching birds in bird baskets, picking blackberries and nuts, and four corners, throwing stones, cricket. The indoor games we play are, draughts, ludo, cards, finding the a in a book, racing games, and table tennis, and snap-apple,
When the players are playing cards, if one of the cards drops on the floor, the players say "what drops on the floor comes in the door." The games we play at school are, tig, handball, and gangs. When the chest-nuts are ripe in Autumn, we go out the country and pick supplys of them. We then put them up until they are well seasoned. When then they are seasned we put a hole in them with a nail. Then we put a piece of cord with a knot in the end of it through the hole. We have great sport trying to break the chest-nut. One boy holds the chest-nut while the other the other boy tries to break it. They got every second chance to hit it.Rounders
Rounders can be played during any part of the year. It is played with with an even number. Boys go out playing rounders every day after school.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonroad More, Co. Clare
