School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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- XML “School Games - Tricks”
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- (continued from previous page)equal to five and the centre one ten. There were three other sticks about a foot long which were used for throwing at the other five.
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- Collector
- John Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr C. Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- It was played the same way as nowadays. Only they were not so exact, and they were much rougher. They had a team of twenty one men in each townland.
- Pitching buttons was played the same way as pitching and tossing pennies is nowadays. One side of the button was called head and the other harp. the boys used to cut the buttons off their clothes and put in nails in their places. Some boys would have two or three hundred buttons.
- A person was told to go outside and while he would be out another person would make three herrings. If he had not the herrings made when he would come in(continues on next page)