Possible Clues:

• Tossing pennies in this game — no energy required
• They go down like skittles!
• Game with square legs
• Skittles, IX objects to be knocked down
• Game in which the under-tens nip around
• Skittles make one cross legs
• They all have a point for a knockdown
• The point of them is that they're all made to go down
• There are twelve of them in Galway and they don't get knocked down
• Nine go down here, but twelve are up in Galway