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School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)

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Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 202

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    Games I Play
    The games I play are hurling, football, handball, rounders, cards, hide and go seek, partners, table tennis, cat and dog, hop scotch, four corners, skittles, draughts, rings, pitch and toss, blind man's buff and bagatelle.
    Jig is played in the following way. All the boys get round in a ring and one boy gives out a rhyme giving each boy one word out of the thyme and whoever the last word falls on has the tig and he has to follow the other boys. Jig means that he has to follow the other boys till he catches one of them that boy has to follow the others.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harry Barry
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lakill and Moortown, Co. Westmeath