School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 377
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- Here is a list of the games which I play;- Fool in the middle, Tig, Fox and Goose, Tap the Slipper, Blind Man's Buff, Nuts in May, High Windows, Hide and Seek, Tally-Ally-O, Johnny is Dead, London Bridge, Pull Tight and Let Loose and bolours.
Any number of children can play tig, one person says the rhyme P- I - G pig you have the tig and that person leaves it on one of the other players.
When playing "High Windows" a crowd of children gathers together and forms a ring.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toomour, Co. Mayo
