School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 329

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“Pop gun” was a favourite game among the boys long ago. This was done by making a small gun of elder into which they put balls of wet paper and fired them at each other.


Collected by: - Seósamh Mac Giolla Coisgle, Coad
Told by: - John Costello, Coad (his father)
(58 years)

Collector
Seósamh Mac Giolla Coisgle
Gender
male
Address
Coad, Co. Clare
Informant
John Costello
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Age
58
Address
Coad, Co. Clare
Language
English

Frog-jump was played in a field. About twenty boys would go on their hands and knees on the grass. The last boy would jump over all the others. Then the next would do the same until they would be all finished.
In playing Jack stones a person used put four stones on the back of his hand, and throw them up and turn up the palm of the hand so that they would fall into it again.

Collected by: - Nóra Ní Chasadaigh, Ballycashen
Told by: - Thomas Cassidy, Ballycashen (her father)
(60 years)