School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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- "Cows, calves, ewes and lambs"
We used to play this game in the ashes, on Winter nights, when I was a child, 85 years ago.
We made the ashes level with a tongs - it had a round knobby head. We made 16 holes with the round head in the ashes like this
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The player tells one of us to choose a hole. He does so.
Pointing to the first line of holes, from left to right, the player says "Cows" He points to the second row similarly and says "Calves"; to the 3rd(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim