School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Sráid an Mhuilinn (roll number 2278)
- Location:
- Millstreet, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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- Games I PlayThese are some of the games I play.Colours. Train - train the needle - case. Four corner fool. Hide and seek. Frog in the middle. Tig. Blind man's buff. Screen behind the curtain. In and out goes Darhee - Blue - bell. Chains and tables.We play special games during the different seasons of the year. In Spring we play tops and skip. In Summer we go swimming and as well we play all the out door games. In Autumn we go black - berry picking.
In Winter we catch birds and blow bubbles, and play indoor games when the weather is too bad to go out of doors. ColoursColours are played in the following way. Any amount of children can play this game. The children stand in a row and three girls are appointed, on to give(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Millstreet, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Millstreet, Co. Cork
