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School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)

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Skerries North, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
E. Tansey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 268

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  1. Games and Pastimes - Conquers

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    Two people play conquers. Both of them has a piece of twine and a conquer on it. A conquer is an ordinary horse chestnut. Many boys and big men play this game in the Autumn as it is a nice game. When we have the conquer on the twine we begin to play and whoever says "ick ack first crack" the first starts the battle of the conquers. When the conquers tangle whoever says "tangle "two" first gets two free shots.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Laurence Blanchfield
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Youngstown, Co. Kildare