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School: Gurteen (roll number 586)

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Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 295

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  1. The Games I Play

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    The games played in this district are as follows. Hurling, Football, Rounders, Four-cornered-Fool, Frog-Jump, Fox and Goose, Jack-stones, Skipping, Chip-Chop-Cherry, Jumping, Tig, Two-legged-race, Hide-and-go-seek,
    Blind-Man's-Buff, Tug-0-War, Crib-Making
    "Jack-Stones"
    Jack Stones is a very nice game which the children like to play. It is played by one boy with two stones.. The game is played by throwing up one stone and while that stone is coming down the other stone is thrown up, sometimes the two stones hit against one another and that ends the game.
    Four-Corner-Fool.
    This game is played with five children four having a stone each to stand on. The stones are placed on the ground some distance apart. One person would represent the fool
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    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
    Informant
    James King
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Lord's Park, Co. Tipperary