School: Shallee, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 6245)
- Location:
- Shallee (Coughlan), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chonchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)has cakes. Then they pull from each side.
This is the way we play "Is this gate locked". All the children will catch hands and go into a ring and one person will stay out and go round saying "Is this gate locked" and all the others will say together " yes and bolted" and the person outside will tig someone and that person has to follow him. When he is caught he will go round and say the same thing and so on till they all go their turn.
Frog in the middle is just the same but one child go inside the ring and closes his eyes and jumps up saying,
"Frog in the Middle,
Jump up, Jump up"
and then he catches someone and tells his name without looking at him and so on.
To play "See-Saw" we get a long board and put it on something high and let one or two sit on each(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughboy, Co. Tipperary
