School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 10_026
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- They play the following games
1. Skipping
2. pickie
3. swinging
4. hides
6. chickaclock
7. the ghost in the well
8. baseball
9. sharing the ring
10. mothers1. This is the way you would skip, you would get a rope and two would twist it and a couple would go in to it. The time of the year for skipping is the summer.
2. We play pickie very often in summer and this is the way it is played. First you draw a long square. Next you put numbers in the boxes for six to twelve and put your name on the top of the square. Then you get a flat smooth stone and hop from box to box along. If you stood on the line or gave two hops in one box you would have to wait for your(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Nic Giolla Bhuidhe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Evoy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fionnúig, Co. Chiarraí
