School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)
- Location:
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Úna Nic Choluim
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A bucket is put on the ground, and each player goes around the bucket as quickly as possible ten times. Then he tries to catch without falling, the apple hanging from the roof. If he succeeds in doing so he gets the apple. - Collector
- Áine Ní Mhaolrúanaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Reen, Co. Kerry
- XIII
Get two pieces of timber and put them in the form of a cross laid horizontally. Then place a candle and an apple every second one on each limb of the cross. Hang it on to the ceiling, and while it is in motion try to snap an apple off the cross without burning yourself.
