Eilis Brady's classic book on Irish children's games, All In, All In, has a selection of hopscotch games that she calls 'beds'. She refers to the tin used as a throwing token as a 'pickey'. She offers several chalking patterns.
Someone's playing hopscotch these days in Harold's Cross Park - the chalked bed renewed day by day. I'm curious about who the children may be, since many of the kids who play in the park are children of African and Eastern European parents - lovely polite little ones they are, too. I'm wondering if a) it's the few children of Irish parentage, b) it's children who've learned the game here, or c) it's children who have brought the same familiar pattern from their homeland.