School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Dillon
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- (continued from previous page)there has to be a goal-keeper to keep the ball from going through the goals and a full-back to try and keep the ball from going near the goals.
Any number of boys or girls can play hand ball. It is played up to a ball-Ally and each person rushes and tries to hit the ball as many times as possible and very often people are hurted rushing for the ball playing this game. This game is played for about a couple of hours until each person is tired.
First of all a crowd of people are wanted when rabbits and dogs are being played. Then the people stand in a line and one person counts up to twenty one and who ever twenty one falls on has to be a dog. The same is done again until another dog is picked out. Then the dogs run about in the fields and they rabbits come out of the burrow and run into the other burrow and away with the dogs after them. If any of the dogs catch(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lily Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Friarstown, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- William Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Friarstown, Co. Leitrim
