School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 141
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tallanstown
- XML Page 141
- XML “How To Play Buck”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- First of all a person would get a short stick about two inches long and pare it on both sides.
Then get a long stick about two feet.
Put the short stick which is called a "Buck" in a ring.
The person would have to hit the buck and while it was in the air hit it again.
Each person would get three chances they would measure how many lengths of stick they drove it from the ring and who ever had the most won.
The way Fox is played two or three boys go as foxes and hide in different places where they are hard to find out.
The rest of the boys are the hounds and they go to look for the foxes. One or two boys are the captains of the hounds and shout
"Tally ho, Tally ho, and the hounds follow them. Then they go in search of the foxes if they rise any of the foxes they follow him shouting like hounds.
If they catch him they knock him down and pretend to kill him.
- Collector
- Michael Ginnetty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glydefarm, Co. Louth
