School: Tuar an Fhíona, Cluain Meala

Location:
Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Gearóid Ó Coindealbháin
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  1. The most important outdoors is Four Corner Fool. This is how we play it. If there are five to play it one of them steps out and repeats this rhyme :
    Three little gipsys lived in a tent
    They could not afford to pay their rent
    The rent man came and turned them out
    Gipsy, gipsy, you are out.
    The person on whom the word 'out' falls on has to be the fool. The four more get on the stones and they begin to change places. If the fool is watching then he will surely get in someplace and then somebody else is the fool. That is the way to play it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pádraig Teidhirs
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cahernaleague, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Tomás Ó Dunaighe
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynamult, Co. Waterford