School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)player who catches the apple with the penny in it may eat it.
There is another way of playing it also. An apple is hung off the ceiling and a chair is placed under it. Then each player gets a stick and he tries to strike the apple and if he succeeds he gets the apple.
- I play snap-apple in many ways. I get a tub of water and I put an apple into it and I try to get it.
Another way is to hang an apple from the ceiling and try to bite it. A chair is laid on the ground and a person tries to get the apple. Three plates are placed in the floor, one full of clean water the second filled with dirty water and the third is left empty. Three men are then blind-(continues on next page) - Collector
- Seán Ó Crimhthín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Duinneachdha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
