School: St. Michael's Clooncunny (roll number 14589)
- Location:
- Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Stondúin
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- (continued from previous page)The Tailor.
A shovel was put between two stools. Two sods were put under the ends of the shovel. A man sat tailor wise on the shovel and tried to dislodge the sods of turf without falling from the handle.
Old Father Brown.
This seems to have been a variation of My Nine Daughters - being played in the same way except that the words
"Fr Brown Fr Brown" were used before the words "Here comes a young man" This game was played widely in Mayo and consisted of some fifteen or sixteen verses - the words are possibly to be found yet in that area. - Other Customs
After a corpse was taken from the house the chairs and stools in all the rooms were(continues on next page)