School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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- (continued from previous page)had the name of the member failed to answer him he would get a blow of the stick.
Another game is [Turaboz]. He (can) cannot explain how this game is played.
- There are many games which still exist from the olden times such as playing cards during the long wintery nights. [Datz] was another game that used to be played long ago and is jet. One person puts a cloth on his eyes and follows the rest until he succeeds in catching all of them. Another game is passing the ring. It is an indoor game. Three or four people can take part in it. One person is required for passing round the ring and another for guessing who has it. The person who gives it round has to guess next time and the person who gets it has to pass it round.Mary Daly Crimlin, Irishtown got the following information from her uncle Michael Daly who got it from his father Thomas Daly who died at the age of seventy years thirty one years ago.
- The boys of this place used to make pipes out of spools for blowing soap bubbles.
In the Sunday evenings all the boys used to - Collector
- Mary Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crumlin, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Daly
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crumlin, Co. Mayo
