School: Baile Uí Mhurchadha, Borris
- Location:
- Ballymurphy, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Michael Ó Seachnasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 038
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- We play jack stones, thread thread the needle, spy, colours, hop-scotch, corners. This is how we play jack stones. We would get five small stones first. Then we would toss them on the backs of our hands. We would do our onesers by pelting up one stone and try to pick up one that would be on the ground. Then we would do twosers by leaving two stones on the ground and pelting up one stone and pick up the two of the ground and catch the one coming down. Then we would do our threesers by pelting up one stone and picking up three stones and catch the one coming down. Then we would do our foursers by pelting up one stone and picking up four and catching the one coming down. Then we would do hard jack and soft jack. This is how we play hard jack by pelting up one stone and while that stone would be up we would pick up the other stone and we would make the two hit against each other. We would do that six times. This is how we play soft jack by pelting up one stone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymurphy, Co. Carlow
