School: Mong, Thomastown (roll number 5201)
- Location:
- Mungmacody, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 059
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mong, Thomastown
- XML Page 059
- XML “Games I Play at School”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- All my school companions play a lot of game at lunch half hour every day. Some of them are as follows:- Four corner fool, Skipping, Blind Pooka, Fox and chickens, The Old Hag, Following Stone, Tig, Hide and go seek, Spy, Colours and time, High gates & Cat and the mouse. Hell and Heaven, Ring a ring a rosie, Draw a bucket of water Guessing, Stack, running and jumpingFour corner fool.
In our lawn we have one spare corner. In this corner we play four corner fool. One child stands in each corner of it and one child stands in the middle and she is called the fool Now the fool says, "Move" and each of the four changes from one corner to the other. If the fool can get in any of the four corners while they are changing, she can stay in it and the person has no corner is then the fool.Skipping
Nearly all the girls of our(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Whitty
- Gender
- Female
