School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 302
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- (continued from previous page)girl in the nurse's part, and a "make-believe-sick-person" in the middle.
To "spin a top" a cord is twisted round the top and it is thrown on the floor to spin.
To play "marbles", two holes are made, and a marble is put in both holes, then the remaining three are thrown at those two to shoot them out of the hole.
To play "skittles" five sticks are left standing- two in the front, one in the middle, two behind. Three long sticks are thrown one by one at the others. If you cross one hundred, you have to go back to eighty. Every stick you knock counts five, that is twenty-five in the bunch.
"Donkey" is played by passing a ball from one to another and whoever lets it go first is "D", and so on 'till the whole word is spelled.
To play "shop" one stands behind a big box, with jam-pots, bits of delf, cocoa boxes and such things. The buyer comes with stones for money, and asks for tea and sugar, and gets clay, or she may ask for jam and she then gets a jar of clay mixed with water.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Owen Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drummanbane, Co. Cavan
