School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)
- Location:
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0504, Page 224
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- (continued from previous page)again the other children cry out that she had won a bed.
- This game is popular in this locality. It is played as follows. a number of children gather together and form a ring. They act as a woman getting married, her husband dying, her children dying, her becoming a teacher, loosing her needle and find it.
- Collector
- Kitty Staff
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
- The game is liked well and it is played as follows. Four corners are made and it is played by five boys four of whom have corners. The players exchange corners so as to give the other person a chance of getting a corner.
