School: An Dúinín (roll number 4444)
- Location:
- Dooneen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Ó Motharua
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- (continued from previous page)by a handful of grass or a scrape of a shoe-heel on the roadside & the bowl is thrown back again to the players for an opponent to throw it. When one player is one throw ahead, in distance, he is said to have a "bowl of odds" Supporters of the players usually try to divert their particular favourites by standing on the road at a spot where they wish the player to land the bowl if he is to get a long throw. Of course they jump quickly aside when the bowl is thrown. Local friendly matches take place often for small stakes, but parochial champions will often issue challenges for stakes as high as £5 or £10.Football
This is not played now to any great extent in the district. In former days parochial teams often challenged each other for a match.
Often oars were placed upright as goal-posts
Old people still call the ball a "peil"Hurling
not played at all in this districtBirín Beo.
This game (indoor) is now unknown, but was played up to a few years ago in Toehead. The first person took a lighted splinter from the fire and recited the rhyme
"Birín Beo! Birín marbh" Is mo gheibheann mo bhirín bás
toir do dhá láimh, beidh an "trom, trom" ort." The person, in whose hand the stick quenched, went on hands and knees and various articles were placed on his back until he guessed what had been placed on him.- Informant
- Donnchadh Ó Ceocháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toehead, Co. Cork