School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 445
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- (continued from previous page)103 You cannot work well and be looking behind you.104 Easy said is hard done.105 Fools be seldom thanked.
- 24.5.1938High windows
This is how high windows is played. The children gather together and catch hands and they hold them up high and they go round in a ring and one stands in the middle and picks out someone out of the ring and they play tig and through it and then they keep playing until all the children are picked out.Little red man
This is how little red man is played. One child dressed in red sits on the ground with her eyes closed. Then the other children ran round her saying "little red man catch me if you can," then the first one she catches will sit down and this is played(continues on next page) - Informant
- Joe Milton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beihy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mary Whitney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beihy, Co. Leitrim
