School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)
- Location:
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Úna Nic Coluin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0434, Page 080
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- (continued from previous page)with stones in order to make it heavy, and tries it with cord. Then one of the players leads off by throwing his match-box into the first "bed", and hops up along through all the "beds" kicking the match-box from "bed" to "bed" till he reaches the last "bed". Then he must kick the match box along the "beds" till he reaches "Bed 1" again. When he has this done, he must pitch into any "bed" he likes, and each time he goes up down he must put his two legs in the "bed" he pitched into. Each of the other players must jump over his "bed" It keeps on like this until each "bed"
- Collector
- Máire Ní Chéitinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
