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School: Tobar Ruadh

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Toberroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0196

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    watching to catch the buttons coming down and was whoever would have the most they would be the best. They would play Buttons by the fireside long ago.
    Long ago it was a great pastime for the people to go out in the fields picking blackberries and they would put Sugar on them and make jam of them and eat them. The children also pick blackberries now just the same as the people long ago. The people used to be catching birds in Winter long ago and they also catch them now in the Winter time.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Naughton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonlyon, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Michael Quinn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Cloonlyon, Co. Galway