School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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- How they used to play jack - stones.
They used get five round small stones and put then on the back of their hand and then they used to start playing. They used to say when when they used turn the jack stones the first time, five. The next time ten and so on, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, one a pass five, two a pass ten, three a pass fifteen, four a pass twenty, scatters, and as they ust to do scatters, they ust to say, one for luck, and one for grace and one to make my scatters safe, they would(continues on next page)
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- Katie Kilcoyne
- Gender
- Female
