School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
An Creagán Bán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 03_006

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 03_006

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: Creganbane
  2. XML Page 03_006
  3. XML “Games”

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. Long ago children used play Jack-stones and they play them now also. The people say that it is not right to be playing Jack-stones. They have an old rhyme about it. "Cards and dices the devils advices and Jack stones worse than all."
    They used have another game called "Steps in the River. You must have five stones and place four on the ground and throw up the other. You must catch it as it is coming down and the four
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí sóisialta (~7)
        1. siamsaíocht agus caitheamh aimsire (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellie Grady
    Gender
    Female