School: Clonfad (roll number 11948)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Cionnaodha
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- (continued from previous page)the pot leave down your hand on the ground and put all the stones into your hand then lift off your hand and scrape them up. There are three scatters played in the end of it. Jackstones is the oldest game that is played in the school.
As many as you like can play Timbleappear. The way to play it is all the children that are going to play sit in a row and one child stands out and get a stone in her hand and the children keep their hands closed and the child that is out goes round and puts her hand into all the childrens hands and gives the stone to some child and whatever child would be able to guess the child that would have the stone would be out the next time
