School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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- The games I generally play with my brothers are hurling, nut-cracking, marbles, hoop-racing, hide and go seek, blindsman's-buff, rounders, bumpers, and four corner fool.
Nut-cracking is in season about Novermber as the nuts are shelled about that time. We collect nuts and put them to save. After a time we hole them with a nail and pull a cord with a knot on one end through the nuts, and crack them with other boys' nuts - who ever breaks the most nuts wins the game.
Marbles - a game we usually played about March when the roads were lovely and dry. Each boy places so many marbles in a ring and there is one large marble called a taw, this is used by each in their turn to knock out the marbles out of the ring. Whoever owns the marble that is knocked out has to replace(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12