School: Cloonacool (roll number 4802)
- Location:
- Cloonacool, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Blioscáin
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- (continued from previous page)"Gone to the smith to be fired""Where's the smith?""Between the sky and the ground" and then the person pointing her finger to the sky would say "There's the sky" and then she would point to the ground and say "There's the ground".
- This was a game played by the girls when out in the fields. They had a rhyme which ran like this."Wall Flowers! Wall Flowers growing up so high. We have the measles and we shall never die".
As for Mary Henry she is the pride of all.
She can dance and she can sing and she can play the tower.
Fee Fo Fower
Turn your back to our.She would have to turn her back to the rest and the girls would keep saying this rhyme until every one would have their back turned. - Collector
- R. Davitt
