School: Leath-árdán
- Location:
- Lahardaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 103
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- The children of this Locality play very nice games. In Winter time they children play dollog. It is an old game.
This is the way they play it. A few boys gather in a house on a winters night So one of the boys will get a cloth, and put it on his eyes, and the rest of the boys will run round the house until the boy with the cloth on his eyes catch one of them. They boy that is caught will have to put on the cloth on his eyes, and follow the rest of the boys So the game is carried on like that for a while. Another game is skipping. First four girls will gather together and get a thin rope. Then two of the girls will catch each an end of the rope. Then the girls that have a hold of the rope will put it round, and the other two girls will jump in to the rope, and they will hop, every time the rope is being put round, it will go under their feet. So they will play like that for while. In Summer time the children play(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockfarnaght, Co. Mayo
