School: Lochán Mór
- Location:
- Loughane More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 068
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lochán Mór
- XML Page 068
- XML “Cluichí”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Following are some of the games which seem to be peculiar to this locality:-MAITÍN BUIDHE:
A sod of earth is put in the middle of the road & a stick is put standing in it. Two line, one on each side, are drawn about 20 "spans" from this stick.
Two teams are chosen, one for each line, & each player has "his man" - an opposite number on the other team.
A second stick is procured, preferably a crooked smután of furze, & one player throws it at the standing stick. All players must "toe" their line(continues on next page)
