School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 133
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- (continued from previous page)she gets must then be the fool and so on.
- The games I play are, Hide; Blind Man's Buff, High Ranks, Colours, London Bridges, and Four Corner fool. I amuse myself by picking blackberries and nuts and sloes in Autumn. Sometimes I go searching for birds' nests in Spring, and I make daisy chains. In summer I amuse myself by picking wild flowers, such as daisies, buttercups, primroses, and May-flowers.
Boys amuse themselves by making bird-baskets for catching birds in Winter and making snares for catching rabbits(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nora Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs J. Moynihan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
