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School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)

Location:
Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 277

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    Bed shells ; hunting ; Four Corner Fool ; Colours ; Cally House ; Soldiers ; Jackstones ; Shop ; School ; Tinkers ; Tip in the Ring ; Jenny Jo ; Sir Roger is dead ; Hell and Heaven ; Hide and Seek ; Spaniards ; Robbers ; Telling fortunes on grass e. g. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor etc. Frog in the middle we play "Soldiers" with Plantain. Two play at with a bunch of plantain grass with black heads on. Take each piece one by one and strike the other - whoever knocks the most heads off wine at this game.
    We pick whorls in the summer and sell them, and blackberries in the Autumn but these we do not sell. We also pick Mushrooms when they come.
    Our brothers can make snares for rabbits and cribs for catching birds and slings for throwing stones.
    Jenny Jo
    One girl is the mother and another is Jenny Jo who gets out of sight of the rest of the girls. The girls all form in a line and come up
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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
    C. Ní Mhainnín
    Gender
    Female