School: Kilgobnet
- Location:
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 383
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- (continued from previous page)away and the other girl hunts. According as she catches the others they join up to her and hunt the others with her until they are all caught.
Pickie
A square containing 6 bozes are draw out on the ground and the girl that is going to play gets a flat stone or a slate that is called a "pitch". She starts at the first box and throws the pitch into it and she hops to the end of the 6 boxes and on her way back she picks up the pitch and throws it into the 2nd box and so on until she has finished. If she throws the pitch up on a line or into the wrong box she has the game lost.
- Collector
- Nora Cahill
- Gender
- Female
