School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- There are several kinds of games that I can amuse myself at, such as: "Jackie four corner," "Captain," "Colours," "Robbers," "Counting ten," "Ass," "Lazy Mary," "Mother buy a beads bag," "Come to see Jenny Jo," "Who'll buy the milkcan," "Here I sit a sewing in my little house," "I lost my glove."The games I play in the Winter around the house are: "Hiding the thimble," "Blind man's Buff," and "Draughts," "Ludo," "Cards," "Snakes and Ladders." In the Spring and Summer months principally the children go skipping and chasing tops.
- Collector
- Cecilia Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- We play the following games, "Sheep-Sheep," "Tig," "Hide and go seek", "Blind Billy", "Thread the needle", "Fox and geese", "Dropping the handkerchief", "Barley bridges broken down", "Hell and Heaven", "Spaniards", "Sending for messages", "Giant Steps", "Towns", "Shops"
