School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0383, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)It is with chest-nuts we play nut cracking. Two players play this game. We bore a hole through the centre of the nut with a nail.
Then we put a piece of cord through the hole and knot it at the end.
Then the first player raises his cord and tries to break his opponents nut with his own nut. If he fails to break it, the second player takes his chance, and does the same thing. The player to succeed in breaking the first nut is known as conquerer one. In Kick the Can any number of players can play.
We put a tin can on the road and then all the players go off except the hunter. He then hunts them and each of players must kick the can before the hunter catches them.
- Collector
- Pat Shannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
