School: Gleann Gabhna, Tulach an Iarainn
- Location:
- Glengoura Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhshláinghe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 209
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- Young boys and girls always love to be playing games between themselves.
We play games like these, "The Cat and the Mouse", "Gaps", and Ring a Rosy", "Drop the Handkerchief, and the bull. We also play bread and Wine, this is the way each is played. Cat and Mouse are played by having a big ring of children. One person should be supposed to be the Mouse, and another the Cat, the cat is to hunt the mouse in and out through each in the ring. Another(continues on next page)
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- Kitty O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
