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School: Cor Liath (2) (roll number 14380)

Location:
Corlea, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Róise Ní Dhéaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 140

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  1. Games I Play

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    "Tig", "Hide and Seek", "Hounds and Hares", "Kick the stone", "Jumping", "Skittles",
    "Skipping", "Running races", "Colours", "Leap frog", "Marbles", "French tig", "Filling the gap", "Catching - hand - tig", Horses.
    Skittles. Place five sticks standing up on road giving 10 to middle skittles and 5 to the rest
    e.g.
    . .
    .
    . .
    . position of person
    Throw three sticks, make winning number 25, or 50 or 75, or 100.
    Hounds and hares.
    A few children run away and hide and shout when they are hidden. These are the hares. Two or three are chosen as hounds and these follow and try to catch the hares, when each child is caught their throats are cut with hands.
    Springtime:
    The pastime of the children is bird-nesting counting nests and finding out the different varieties of birds
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charlie Mitchell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shantonagh, Co. Monaghan