School: Baile Stiabhna, Askeaton (roll number 7900)
- Location:
- Ballysteen, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Shúilleabháin
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- Nut cracking is played in Autumn time when the nuts are fully ripe. A party of boys collect and get nuts in a wood or elsewhere. They put a hole in the centre, and pass a cord through. One person holds out his nut and lets his friends 'crack' at it with theirs, wishing to split it. If one fails to strike it, he has to hold his own to the others and they continue like this until every nut is split.