School: Shanakill, Roscrea
- Location:
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)pick two off the ground and catch the one that's coming down. Then we pick up the other ones. We play on till we got to fourses, and we start at high stones. We throw up one and let 4 fall, then we catch the one coming down. Then we pick them up as before. We stay playing until we go to high fourses then we throw up one and pick the four from the ground and catch the one coming down. We play that twice. Then we leave down one and play on till we come back to one again. That is how we play jack-stones.
Another game I play is "ring-a -ring-a-rosy. A few girls catch hands together and make a ring around and all will say together,
Ring-a-ring-a-rosy
Pocketful of posies
Desha, desha all pop down.
- The ground in this district would not grow a second crop of potatoes. The people around here have to till the ground every year. They put out farm-yard manure on the ground every year in Spring. When(continues on next page)
