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School: Ballyboghill

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Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
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P.J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 382

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    do is to get your marble into the holes while the other players in there turn try to hit your marble. Whoever gets the twelve holes first tries to hit each of the other marbles if they are hit they are out of the game.
    Hell, Heaven and Purgatory is played as follows. A crowd of children gather together and two of them go away and they think of three different things. Then they call the others in their turn and ask them which would they rather have the children are put in three different places and one place is called Hell, the other Heaven and the other Purgatory.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Finnegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Murragh, Co. Dublin