School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)
- Location:
- Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)Then the game goes on as before.
- The indoor game I like best is "sharing the half penny". The oldest player puts a half penny into his joined hands and every other one of the players joins his hands in the same time.
Then the person with the half penny in his hand draws his hand through the hands of the other players. He drops the half penny in some one's hands and he asks some other one of the players in whose hand is the half penny. If he did not know it he would ask another and another. Then he would give the half penny to the person who would know it.
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- Collector
- Patrick T. Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockavoreen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Tim Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Knockavoreen, Co. Cork
