School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)in a circle. One goes in the middle of the ring and stands there. The others sing:-
"Poor Widow, poor widow, she is left all alone
She has nobody to marry at home,
You said the East, you said the West,
You say the very one you love best."
The person inside calls out the name of any person in the ring. They both stand in the centre of the ring.
Those with there hands joined say:-
"Those poor couple are married together,
We wish them a great many joys
But that does not do, three hundred and two
They kiss and say good-bye."
'Colours'
When we play colours one person becomes an angel and another a devil. They go to a wall and stand apart. The others all get a colour. Then the angel and the devil call out colours and the person whose(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Starr
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisquillibeen, Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Sara Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Larkin's Hill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Larkin's Hill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Starr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisquillibeen, Co. Tipperary
