School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 219
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- "Poor Thady" is another game we play. One girl is "Poor Thady" and she makes out she is sick. The other girls come to inquire how she is. They come a couple of times and in the end they find out that Thady is dead. They lift her on their shoulders and carry him to her grave and leave her down. Poor Thady opens her eyes and jumps up and the person he calls to be Poor Thady.
- Collector
- Róisín Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drum East, Co. Sligo
- A number of children stand round in a ring and catch hands, and one child goes into the ring and says the rhyme;-
Draw a bucket of water,
For my lady's daughter,
One in a rush,
Two in a rush
May your lady come under the bush.
