School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 223
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- (continued from previous page)called "The fool in the middle". Then they run from corner to corner and the person in the middle is to try and get to one of the corners and the person that is left without a corner is the fool.Cat can be played with four persons. You make two rings and then you get a stick four inches long and then two long sticks to hit the short one which is called the cat. Two persons try to throw the cat into the ring and two more try to keep it out.Tig is played as follows. All the boys that are playing stand round in a ring and one boys gives out the tig tapping everyone as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
