School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 300G
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- (continued from previous page)play various games. The games are as follows:- The Three Saucers Diving for a Coin and Snap-apple
The game called "the three saucers" is played by placing three saucers on a table having clay in one water in the second and a ring in the third.
then the player is blindfolded and he is led to the table. If he puts his hand on the one with the clay in it he is supposed to be buried before the next Hallow E'en night. If he puts his hands in the one with water in it he is supposed cross the ocean again that time twelve months. If he puts his hand on the one with the ring in it he is supposed to be married again the the next Hallow E'en night
Diving for a coin is played by getting a tub of water and putting a coin in it. Then one of the player's hands are tied behind his back and then he dives for the coin
On the Twelve days of Christmas all the people in this district decorate their houses with holly and ivy(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lord's Park, Co. Tipperary
