School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)
- Location:
- Mullen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: B. Mac Siúrtáin
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- (continued from previous page)game they played was "[?]. They played it in the following manner. Ten or twelve men would sit on the floor in a ring with their knees held upwards. One man would stand up in the middle of the ring. Then they would get a belt and pass it from one to the other under their knees. When one of the men would get the chance he would strike the man in the middle with the belt. If he could catch the man's hand that struck him that man would have to go in in the middle of the ring.
I learned the fore going from my grandfather. Lizzie Breslin,
Leitrim,
Frenchpark(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Breslin
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
