School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)blind man's buff one boy puts a cloth on his eyes and he tries to catch one of the other boys and if he succeeds the cloth is then put on that boys face.Tour corners is played with five boys. You make four corners and one boy stands in each corner and another boy in the middle. The boy in the middle is called the fool. Then they run from corner to corner and the boy in the middle tries to get into one of the corners. The boy who is left without a corner is the next fool.Tig is played like this. All the boys stand in a line and one boy say a little rhyme touching them all on the breast and whichever boy the last word falls on has to run after the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
