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School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)

Location:
Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269D, Page 05_047

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    All the children, boys or girls, play this game. About twenty usually are enough. Two catch hands, facing each other, and hold up their arms to make an arch.
    All the others form into a line, one after the other, and every child holding on to the coat tails of the child in front of him.
    In this order they pass under the arch made by the raised arms of the pair aforesaid, as they go through, they chant the follow-
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon