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School: Rosses's Point (roll number 12133)

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Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Raighne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 233

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  3. XML “Handball”
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  1. Handball

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
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  2. Top Spinning

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    The players would toss up and see who would put down their top. They would tie a piece of cord to the top and peg it and pull the cord and the top would spin and if it would go into a certain hole he would lose his top. The other players would stick his top in the ground and the other players would split it with their own tops.
    Another way for playing, one of the players would spin his top and the other would try and lift it with his left hand and if he did not he would lose his top.
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