School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- An Carn, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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- (continued from previous page)had nothing to eat so they were forced to eat the grass on the fields. There was a great frost that time and all the potatoes got black in the pits.
- There are a great many indoor and outdoor games. The indoor games are such as draughts, Snakes and ladders, cards and a great many others. There is a outdoor game also the way to play it is to have two teams and one of the teams throw in the ball and try and hit the stone while the one at the stone must try to hit the ball with his bat and make as many(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crughwill, Co. an Chláir
