School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 043
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- 1. The old games played in my district are:-
"Blind Man's Buff", HIgh Windows and Angel with the golden hair", and other nice little games.
"Blind Man's Buff" is played with a number of children and one in the middle of the crowd with a band round his eyes trying to catch another child.
2. "High Windows" is played with a ring of children and one child running round the circle.
"Angel with the golden hair", is played with colours and two children, one an Angel and the other a Devil and a row of children and they all take colours and the Angel and the Devil ask for colours and when the row is gone to the Devil and the Angel each side pull and who ever pulls the best, they have won the game.
- Collector
- Mary Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
