School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)duck and skittles. I play Jumping, and running. The way to play duck is every body would get fairly big stones and they would get a granny the would all fire at the granny the fartest away would put up and the other would fire at it
- I play skittles Sometimes the way to play skittles is get three thick sticks and five small ones and put numbers on them from one to five. Then fire the three big sticks at them to try to knock them out of the ring.
- Collector
- Daniel Dohenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grenan, Co. Laois
- I play spy one boy would count ever who it would fall on would lie in a den. The others would hide. Then the chap would look for them when he would see them he would say spy.
