School: Sliabh na Cille (roll number 14513)
- Location:
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 420
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Sliabh na Cille
- XML Page 420
- XML “Games I Play”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Turn to the west Sally
Turn to the one that you love best Sally"
Then she will choose someone and the person that was in the ring first leaves and the one she chooses stays in it. Jordy and Jack
Two people catch hands behind their backs and they run saying the rhyme
"Jordy and Jack were dressed in black
Buckils and swords behind their back
Foot for food and knee for knee
Turn about Jordy and come with me"
Then they twist hands and turn back saying the rhyme."Fox and Chicken"
Any number can play "Fox and Chicken". They will gather behind one another. The fox will come along and start to blow the fire. The hen will ask him what are you blowing the fire for? He will say to boil a pot of water. What do you want with the pot of water? To wash knives and forks? To kill your chickens. Then he will try to kill them. He will rund after them and the two second last that he catches will be fox and mother the next time.
- Collector
- Máire Nic Dhorchaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Maria Mc Gourty
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Aughrim, Co. Leitrim
