School: Clais na nGearrán (roll number 2979)
- Location:
- Clashnagarrane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Conchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0453, Page 380
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- The games we play are, burns, thread the needle and sow, frog in the middle, hunts, hides, skipping, robbers, blinds man's buff.
When we are going to play frog in the middle, first we all join up in a ring.
Then one girl goes into the middle and she goes down on her knees and the first one she catches she must go into the middle and be the frog.
When we are going to play burns, a number of children join up in a ring.
Then one girl goes around the ring. She burns some other girl and the girl she burns must follow her until she catches her.(continues on next page)
