School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- An Gleanntán, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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- (continued from previous page)player throws a marble and then the second player throws his marble if he
says hes going for the marble and if he hits his opponents marble he can keep it.
Two players play nut cracking. We
bore a hole in the nut and put a cord
through the nut. Then we start cracking at each other nut and the player to succeed in breaking the first nut is known as conquerer one. - 2.
The games I play are football, hurling, rounders, nut cracking and fox.
Rounders is played in the following way. About six can take part in this game. Five or six sticks are stuck in the ground in a circle, and one apart from the other which(continues on next page)- Collector
- Donal Grandon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Sheáin Gall, Co. Chorcaí