School: Garrygaug, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Garraí Dhabhag, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Siobhán Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0843, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)handle of an old sweeping brush. We place five of the skittle in the middle and the other four at the ends of the lines. These skittles are numbered one, two, three, four, five. Then the player stands about ten feet back from them and fires the other skittles one at a time. He tries to knock the skittles outside the ring. If he knocks number one outside the ring he wins one, two for number two and so on. We play for a certain number say thirty and whoever scores that number first wins the game.
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