School: Ballycomoyle (roll number 7943)

Location:
Ballycomoyle, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Una Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0721, Page 272

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0721, Page 272

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  1. A number of men make a straw rope. They dip it in a barrel of water. Then about nine or ten sit down in a ring and one man in the middle. They pass the rope to each other and if the man in the middle catches the rope, the man that he catches the rope from has to go in the middle.
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  2. A lot of men sit down in the shape of a boat and one man in the middle of it. He runs up and down the ring. One man goes out for a bucket of water and the rest trips the man in the ring and they throw the bucket of water on
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