School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 291
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- Football, Handball, Tom fool in the middle, Polly Pucóg, tig, citog, skittles, the hen and the flock of chickens and cat and dog are our games.
In winter when there is snow I make snow-men and snow houses and throw snow-balls. When the road is dry I play marbles. In harvest we have good fun picking blackberries and eating them also billberries. I look for birds' nests in Spring and when I get one, I go to look at it every day until the young birds go away.
Sometimes I put the young birds in a cage and feed them with worms and snails. I play cards at night and I have a lot of good games. Some of them are:-
Old Maid, Strip Jack, Twenty-five, Spoiled fifteen, Pig, Up and - down -donkey, Patience, Twenty-five tricks eleven and find my card.
Sometimes I play draughts, ludo and snakes and ladders at night also. I play football nearly every Sunday and handball also.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
