School: Cloch Bhuaile
- Location:
- Cloghboola More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0323, Page 111
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- Five persons play this game. Four of them go into four corners of a room. The other person is in the middle. Those in the corners change places and the fool is trying to get an empty corner. When he succeeds the person who loses his corner must be the fool.
- Informant
- Andrew Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curragh, Co. Cork
- A number of children form a straight line leaving a space of about two yards between every two players. They all put their hands on their knees and stoop down. The last in the line jumps over all the others putting his hands on their shoulders. Then he is in front and(continues on next page)
