School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)

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1. Games I Play

   

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   1. Handball
   2. Football
   3. Hurling
   4. Pitch and toss

   1. A game of handball is played as follows. A match is made by four players two at each side. The game is generally twenty-one aces. One party hits out a ball to them for the "hands" when the "hands" are won the game begins. The party that wins the hands hits out the ball to them. If these fail to hit it, is an ace for them. But if the people outside hit it and the insiders fail to hit it, it is a hand out. The game continues on this way till the first party makes twenty-one aces. Then these hits up the "fair ball" for the others. If these fail to hit it the

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán D. Ó Loinsigh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killacrim, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Patrick Lynch

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyhorgan, Co. Kerry