School: Feighroe, Inish
- Location:
- Connolly, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0608, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)The young children pick nóinins and make chains of them. Also a crowd of girls join up and one goes in the middle. She closes her eyes and the others run around in the ring and the one catches goes in then. We also play "High Gates". We all join up in a ring. Two run in and out through them. If the second one catches the first one two more will go in.
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“The young children like to play many games which their fathers and mothers taught them.”
The young children like to play many games which their fathers and mothers taught them. The games the boys play in the Winter months are making cradle-birds for catching birds. The cradle-birds are made in the shape of a pyramid. There is a square frame left down first. Then it is built up with pieces of timber. Then there is a bow got and it is bent in a half circle and it is fixed on to the frame of the cradle-bird. Then there is a gabhlóg and another weak branch and it is set by means of these and there is a bit of bread put into the middle of the cradle-bird and if she touches the bow the cradle-bow falls down and holds her.
Making water guns for shooting water is another game young children like to play. They(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknakilla, Co. Clare
