School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)on his eyes and do the same thing so on until every one of the players would be caught.
There was another game called "play batch". The players all sit on chairs arranged in the form of a circle as large as the room will permit.
One of the players for whom no chair is provided, stays in the centre of the floor and gives each of the others a letter of the alphabet such as A B C and son on. Some one of the players will say call for some thing in the room with five letters in it.
Then when some person gets a thing which he named he will have to pass it around to all the players and so on until all the players name something in the room.
- Collector
- Mary Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
