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School: Glenculloo, Killoscully (roll number 11083)

Location:
Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Ogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 113

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    The games I play are as follows
    1 There came a Duke a riding
    2 Hell and Heaven
    3 Fox and Geese
    4 Chip chop cherry
    5 Cock and hens
    6 High gates
    7 Frog in the middle
    8 All around the mulberry bush
    9 Ring a ring a rosey
    10 Apples and oranges
    11 Tug of war
    12 Pooks
    Heather berry picking starts in autumn. I amuse myself in Winter by skating on ice. "Hell and Heaven" is played very often among us here in school. We get a fern and say Hell Heaven until we reach the top of the fern and if "Heaven" ends on the last leaf it foretells that you will go to Heaven and if Hell ends on the last leaf it is a sign of going to Hell.
    Instead of listening to stories on cold winter nights we play other
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Hickey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary