School: Cluain le Fán (roll number 12817)
- Location:
- Cloonliffen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Callaráin
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- Mrs Hyland
Rahard, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
42 years of age
30.3.38Long ago the games were very simple. The girls passed their playtimes in making dolls and playing tops. They also made daisy-chains. The game they mostly played was playing marbles. They also had gladd lillies. The child-
ren made a ring of marbles on the sand and made a hole on the other side. They left a space for the marbles to run through. They child that put the marble into the hole got two buttons, and the child that put a glass lillie into the hole got four buttons. The children had to stand a certain distance from the ring.
- Informant
- Mrs Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Rahard, Co. Mayo
