School: Teampoll Doire, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 9060)
- Location:
- Templederry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Flannagáin
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- There is a field near our house belinging to Michael Ryan and there is a fort in it. The shape of the fort is round. There are furze-bushes and haw-thorns growing around it It is said that it is not right to cut furze-bushes out of it or to plough in it. The rabbits caught in the fort are about 1 1/2 times as big as the ones caught in any other field. My uncle Michael Ryan saw a man there one night over 60 years ago about 12 o'clock and he was dressed in white and he gave him an awful fright.
- Cipins are played mostly by girls It is played in this way:-
A line is put across a field and the players stand on each side of it About six yards away from the line, five cipins are put down in the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maura Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballincurra, Co. Tipperary
