School: Cill Chiaráin
- Location:
- Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chuimín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 178
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- (continued from previous page)Pig
This game was played as follows:-
A boy went outside and put a whilte cloth around him. Then he came in making a sound like a pig. He held a stick in his hand and should he have any adversary in the wake house he struck him with the stick.The Seven Tradesmen
This was another game which was displayed in the following manner:-
Seven tradesmen came asking a certain man's daughter in marriage saying "Seven tradesmen are we coming courting your daughter so gallant and gay." Each one told his trade to the old man. The man with the best trade got his daughter in marriage. The fun was about the one she disliked the most.
