1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Reary, Rosenallis

School: Reary, Rosenallis (roll number 924)

Location:
Reary More, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Ml. Dagg
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 077

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 077

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Reary, Rosenallis
  2. XML Page 077
  3. XML “Pegging Tops”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Pegging Tops (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    as he can. If a player succeeds in striking the spike in it, he will then get a stone and strike his top with it three times to drive it into the one in the ditch. The saying is"Every stick a stone "peg." Sometimes the top in the ditch gets split. When pegging at the top in the ring each player pegs his top slantingly so that it will not stay in the ring. Should any top stay in the ring the other players will peg at it to try to knock it out, but if it "dies" in the ring it must be left there. The first top is taken up and the pegging goes on again.If a top fails to spin it is called a "block" top and it is then out in the ring.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Mc Kane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygillaheen, Co. Laois