School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corderrybane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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- (continued from previous page)games which are played outdoors are tig, golf, handball, tennis, fishing, hunting, sliding in frosty weather, snowballing, and building snow men.Cards are one of the best games. There can be many games played with cards even one can play a game of patience with them. Whist is a very exciting game when there is a prize on. Draughts are played on a square board marked out in squares, every other square a different colour. There are twenty four little round blocks of wood. There is a leaflet of directions to show how to play the game within the box. Ludo is played in nearly the same way only four people can play it and there is a leaflet in the box also. Snakes and ladders are played something similar to these two games.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pól Ó Carrathar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corderryduff, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Miss M. Mc Ginnity
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Corderryduff, Co. Monaghan
