School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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- [Drawing]A ring was drawn on a level patch of ground about 7 feet in diameter or so - there was no fixed size. A "marline" was generally used as radius and the "spike" of the top made a line on the ground. The ring being made somebody "cried" "First peg at a spit", somebody else said "second" another "third" and so on according to the number of players.
Somebody then spat on the ground as a "mark"; but the general "mark" was a pebble placed on the intersection of two lines drawn on the ground at right angles with the spear of a "top".
Each then "pegged" at the mark in turn according as they "called". He "marked" his "peg" by drawing two lines away from the "mark".After 5 "pegging" this is gow it would appear. "C" would have to "cant"(short "a")x "mark" pegged atWhatever player was farthest away from the mark had to "cant" i.e. he threw his top in(continues on next page)
