School: Rathcoyle, Kiltegan
- Location:
- Rathcoyle Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 148
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- (continued from previous page)picked out to run after the rest of the children and the child she succeeds in touching has to take her place.
When we are playing Dan, Dan thread the needle, two girls select two colour, one of them takes one colour and other takes the other colour. Those colours are only known to those two girls. Then they call us up one by one to see what colour we will select. When we tell them which colour we like best we join up with the girl who has that colour. Then we pull aginst one another to see which of the sides are the strongest.
When we play "Little Aly Sander" all the girls except one form in a ring. The girl who remains goes into the middle of the ring, and closes her eyes. Then she moves about the ring until she succeeded in laying her hand on one of the girls. Then she must tell the name of the girl she leaves her hand on and if she succeeds in doing so, that girl must take her place in the ring. If she fails in doing this, she must remain(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Margaret O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcarney Lower, Co. Wicklow
