School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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- (continued from previous page)up on a wall. Then the girl at the other end goes out in under her hand. The first girl is in a knot then. The next time the leading girl goes out under the second girls hand, and so on until they are all in a knot. Then they turn their backs inward and swing around in a circle, singing the words all the time.
There is another nice game we play called "name of the birds". A lot of girls stand in a row, and one girl stands out and gives every one of them a birds name. Two girls go a certain distance away, and when the other girl has names on them all, the two girls come back(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Angela Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath
