School: Ráth Chormaic (B.) (roll number 1598)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás de Barra
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- A group of boys put their caps against a wall. All the boys get their turns, one after another. Each boy endeavours to get the ball into one of the caps, encluding his own. When the ball rolls into one of the caps, (the owner) the owner of this grasps the ball and endeavours to strike with it one of the other boys, who are running to get behind the base. If one of the boys is struck with the ball before he is behind the base, a pebble is put into his cap. If the boy in whose cap the ball is misses the boys, who are running, a pebble is put into his own cap. The owner of the cap that first has ten pebbles in it receives punishment from each of the other players.
- Informant
- Seán Ó Riordáin
- Gender
- Male
- A large stone is procured which is called "the granny". A number of boys get small stones which they call "ducks". They throw the ducks at the granny from a line drawn about five yards from the granny. The duck that is farthest away from the granny must be put up on the (the) granny if a(continues on next page)
