School: Cill Mhic Eoghain (roll number 9848)
- Location:
- Kilmackowen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 382
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- (continued from previous page)play very much at present is bag-race. Three or four of them go into big bags, and they run away as fast as they can. Some of them take short steps, and others jump, but whoever comes in first gets a prize. They play the three legged race in school, and some of them can run very fast.
Long ago when the boys had no football they used make "Pop-guns". A boy would go to the wood for a stick of elder about six inches long. Then the fibrous stuff was shoved out with a ram-rod. When the stick was empty in the middle both sides(continues on next page)
