School: Beannchor Iorrais (roll number 13684)
- Location:
- Bangor, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Énrí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0133, Page 251
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- XML “Cluichí Páistí - Sally Waters”
- XML “Cluichí Páistí - The Ghost in the Well”
- XML “Cluichí Páistí - Wall Flowers”
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- (continued from previous page)they keep playing.
- All the children will have a mother and she will send them to the well for water and they will see the Ghost and they will run home and tell their mother and she will tell them get candles and they will run to the well again and the Ghost will follow them and the one the Ghost would catch that one would be the Ghost and they would keep on playing like that.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Mhaoilearca
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloontakilla, Co. Mayo
- Wall Flowers is played by a number of children who stand round in a ring and they say a rhyme. Wall Flowers, Wall Flowers, growing up so high, me and my baby shall never(continues on next page)
