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School: Naomh Maolmaodhóg, Dúndealgan (roll number 15258)

Location:
Dundalk, Co. Louth
Teacher:
S. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0661, Page 199

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    Games
    In autumn when the chestnuts are on the trees the boys go out through the country gethering them. When they come home they make holes in the chestnuts and they pull a string with a knot on one end through them.
    Then two boys meet and one say to the other "Hick-hack, first three." then the other boy holds up his chestnut for the first boy to get three cracks at it with his chestnut. If he breaks the other nut he says; "That's the conqueror of one".
    Told by James McKenna,
    McSwiney St,
    Dundalk.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    James Mc Kenna
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    McSwiney Street, Co. Louth