1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Gleanntán

School: Gleanntán

Location:
Glounthaune, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0383, Page 063

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0383, Page 063

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: Gleanntán
  2. XML Page 063
  3. XML “Games Played by Children in this District”
  4. XML “Games Played by Children in this District”

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. Games Played by Children in this District (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    player throws a marble and then the second player throws his marble if he
    says hes going for the marble and if he hits his opponents marble he can keep it.
    Two players play nut cracking. We
    bore a hole in the nut and put a cord
    through the nut. Then we start cracking at each other nut and the player to succeed in breaking the first nut is known as conquerer one.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. Games Played by Children in this District

    Share Share Post
    2.
    The games I play are football, hurling, rounders, nut cracking and fox.
    Rounders is played in the following way. About six can take part in this game. Five or six sticks are stuck in the ground in a circle, and one apart from the other which
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Donal Grandon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Johnstown, Co. Cork