School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)the boys that failed to catch him has to stay in the corner for the next time.
"Swing Swong" First of all the Swing Swong has to be made. It consists of a long chain with a seat attached to the middle of it. The two ends of the chain is fasened to the bough of a tree about a yard apart from each other. One person then gets into the seat of Swing Swong. Two of the others swing it in and out until they are tired.
- I like playing school best of all because I can slap the children. Sometimes I ask questions that I do not know myself just to get the chance to slap them.
If they talked to me in a whisper I would send them over to the end of the shed to shout it at me. Then if they did not know their reading I would punish(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Kate Behan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossmore, Co. Laois
