School: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Killurney, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire de Brún
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 320
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: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- XML Page 320
- XML “Games - How Many Miles?”
- XML “Games - Skittles”
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
- (continued from previous page)The last pair say, "Will I be there is candle light?" and the first pair reply "Yes and back again".
The last pair run under the arches and stand before the first pair and the game is repeated.
- Tom Cahill and myself went out to play a game of Skittles. We set the game for twenty, we brought out five small skittles and three long ones and we set them out.
I said, "first hand" then I threw my skittles and knocked five and four that was nine. Tom threw and knocked the three middle ones and got ten. I threw again and knocked two and three but the last one was short so I got nothing for that throw. Tom knocked five and four this time and that was 19. He had now only one to get for game. I fixed again and got two I was then 11. Tom threw again and got two he went above the game(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joseph Hickey
- Gender
- Male
