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School: Fothar (roll number 16903)

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Faugher, Co. Donegal
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Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 423

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 423

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  1. Cluichí (continued)

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    Five six break up sticks
    Seven eight a penny weight
    Nine ten a clocking hen
    Eleven twelve dig and delve
    Thirteen fourteen catch a crow
    Fifteen sixteen let him go
    Seventeen eighteen pluck its head
    Nineteen twenty kill him dead.
    Hide the gully, hide the gully, wee, wee, wee,
    High windows, Old grannie grey, The witch in the well, Hide-and-seek, Duck, pitching.
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  2. Cluichí

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    People play marbles about the month of March. They play Blind Man's Buff and Hide-and-Seek and Tig. Some people play Sugar Bowl others Rounders and High Windows. They play all these games through the summer.
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    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mac Ginley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kill, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Mac Ginley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Kill, Co. Donegal

  3. Mo Cheantar Féin

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    There are not as many houses now in the parish as was long ago. There used to be sixteen houses in Parkmore, there are only five or six in it now. The houses long ago were thatched
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      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Parkmore, Co. Donegal
    Collector
    Doreen Holman
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Parkmore, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mary A. Mc Garvey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Parkmore, Co. Donegal