School: Cillín Liath, Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 13412)
- Location:
- Killeenleagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 419
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- The principal games I play are bowling and hunting. The game of bowling is played all the year round because it is a very warm game. It is in the summer the most of the hunting is done. Some people keep a ferret and they kill a lot of rabbits. First of all nets are set around the holes of the fences and when every hole is netted the ferret is put into the nearest hole to the end of the fence. Then the ferret hunts the rabbits out the holes of and they are caught in the net Then he is taken out of it and killed. The ferret continues hunting them until he has every one of them driven out of the fence. There is a muzzle put on the ferret before it is put into the fence for they would drink the blood of the rabbits. It is easier to catch them in traps. First of all the trap is sunk in the ground outside the hole. Then it is covered with grass or earth. It is in the winter and the spring the most of the rabbits are trapped and snared for it is then they are bought. I also play(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Dineen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clooncugger, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Duggan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clooncugger, Co. Cork
