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School: Knocknagilla

Location:
Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 303

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  1. Games I Play (continued)

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    "Going to the fair" is played by putting a few stones into the cart for pigs, and pulling the cart, and selling the "pigs" and buying "them".
    In winter, I make men, I write and I make figures in the ashes with the tongs.
    In summer we bury stones as dead men.
    For a "swing", a cord is hung out of two trees, and one person sits in it and another swings him.
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  2. Games I Play

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    I play a lot of games. I play "Hidding the buttons", Puthog", "Shaving the Friar", "Toss the herrings", "Selling the Belt", "Skittles". "Marbles". "Jack stones". I amuse myself in playing each of these games at different times.
    In Winter, I play "Hiding the button", "Puthog", "Shave the poor", "Toss the Herring" and "Selling the Belt".
    In Summer, I play "Skittles, "Marbles" and "Jack Stones".
    "Hiding the Button" is played some person going outside the house, and some one inside hides the button and the person
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    James Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Beaghy, Co. Cavan