School: Teampoll Doire, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 9060)

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1. Old Forts

   

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   There is a field near our house belinging to Michael Ryan and there is a fort in it. The shape of the fort is round. There are furze-bushes and haw-thorns growing around it It is said that it is not right to cut furze-bushes out of it or to plough in it. The rabbits caught in the fort are about 1 1/2 times as big as the ones caught in any other field. My uncle Michael Ryan saw a man there one night over 60 years ago about 12 o'clock and he was dressed in white and he gave him an awful fright.

   

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2. Games

   

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   Cipins are played mostly by girls It is played in this way:- A line is put across a field and the players stand on each side of it About six yards away from the line, five cipins are put down in the

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maura Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballincurra, Co. Tipperary