School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 311
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- The Games I playPepper and Salt.
Two children stand back to back and one lifts the other with his back and then lifts him with his back and so on.
Knife and Fork
All the children go in a ring except two and the two that are out join their hands together and one takes knife and the takes fork and then the children go out under their hands, the last one is caught, and he is asked which a knife or fork and if he said knife (or a fork) he would go which the person that choose knife and so on until the last one. Then the sides pull and if they pull the other side past a special mark they have won.
- Collector
- James Dooney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
