School: Skerdagh, Newport (roll number 3905)
- Location:
- Skerdagh Lower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James Deffely
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- (continued from previous page)forth for a nights play. Thirty five was the game played and if a man turned up an ace he got ten and the ace. A man could rob the deck head with the ace or king and if a man robbed with the king and a man after him to have the ace the man with the king would have to leave the ace down. The games were from 1d, 6d, 1s a man winner take all. Sometimes a woman from Newport would come out with a basket of delph to the house in which the game was to be played and she'd sell the delph piece by piece to the gamblers who would then play for it. Often a man who would have luck wouldn't be able to carry all his delph home .
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