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School: Mong, Thomastown (roll number 5201)

Location:
Mungmacody, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 060

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    school like Skipping. Every child has a skipping rope of her own.
    One child catches one end of the rope & another child catches the other end of the rope. One girl stands in the middle and the two outside turns the rope over her head and out under her feet and she skips over it. This is a song they sing while doing that
    Lady, lady tip the ground,
    Lady, lady turn around
    Lady, lady show your shoe
    Lady, lady, that will do
    In the Summer we paly that game
    Blind Pooka,
    Blind Pooka is played in winter. All the children gather together One childs eyes are covered and she has to foolow us and the person she catches has then to follow us and so on.
    Fox and chickens
    When all the girls are together again we play fox and chickens. One of the girls hide outside the wall and she is called the Fox
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Maura Whitty
    Gender
    Female