School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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Games I play
People play different kind of games but my favourite game is skittles.
Spinning tops is a favourite game in Spring handball and football are played in Summer cat and dog is played in Autumn and skittles are played in Winter.
Any number of persons more than two can play skittles.
When you are playing skittles you get five small sticks and make a ring.
You make a ring a put a stick standing at each corner of the ring and put a small ring in the centre of the other ring and put a stick standing in the centre of it.
The four sticks at each corner of the ring count 5 each and the centre one counts 10. Then you get 3 long sticks and peg them at the small(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolcor, Co. Longford
