School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)

Location:
Carran, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 14_035

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  1. There are many indoor games such as draughts, snakes and ladders and playing cards.
    Snakes and ladders
    The way to play them is you would have as many playing them as you liked. Each person would have a dice of their own. Then there was a special dice and number up to six in it. If you went to a snakes head you would have to go to the tail. If you went to the bottom of a ladder you would go to the top whether it was the game.
    There are outdoor games also such as Hide and seek:
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní hEidhin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Crughwill, Co. Clare