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School: Girley, Kells (roll number 5007)

Location:
Girley, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhic Mheanmain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 031

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  1. Local Games

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    There are many games played by the children in this locality. One of them is "Birds". It is played by putting a number of children along a wall, and then giving each child different names of birds. Then three children stand out of the row, one child is for catching the children who names are guessed by a guesser, and another is for saying, "All the birds in the air, all the fishes in the sea point me out the thrush." Then another child trys to guess the right child that has the birds name which was called
    If the child that's guessing guesses the right child that has the name, the girl runs to a place marked, and if she is not caught before she reaches the place she goes to heaven and if she is caught
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martha Conry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Fordstown, Co. Meath