School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)

Location:
Gortaveha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
P. Wiley
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 09_012

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 09_012

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Gortaveha
  2. XML Page 09_012
  3. XML “Games of Long Ago”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. 12
    Games of long ago.9:2 :38.
    "Hot hands"two people would sit near each other and leave their hands on one of their knees.They one that would have his hand in the bottom could draugh it and hit the hand on top.
    "Duck"was an old game that people used play at school.First they would have a big stone on the ground called the granny.Then they would pitch and which ever one of them would be the farthest out would have to mind the granny.Then the one that be up would have a stone on they granny and the others would fling at it and it would tick anyone when they would be going back
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Mac Conmara
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockanena, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Patrick Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    85
    Address
    Derreendooagh, Co. Clare