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. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.