School: Cill Úird (B.)
- Location:
- Kilworth, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Suibhne
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- XML “The Games We Play - Hide and Seek”
- XML “The Games We Play - Four-Cornered Fool”
- XML “The Games We Play - Colours”
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- (continued from previous page)try to find him. When he is found he tries every trick he knows to elude his pursuers and escape into his "den" where he is safe.
- Five persons are required to play this game. A square is marked with chalk on the path or road. Four flat stones are placed at each corner of the square and a boy stands on each stone. The fifth boy- "The Fool"- stands in the centre. The boys run from corner to corner and "the fool" tries to get into one of the empty corners. If he succeeds the boy who's corner he has occupied becomes "the fool".
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- Collector
- Adrian Barry
- Gender
- Male