School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 228
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- (continued from previous page)corner to corner and the person in the middle tries to get into one of the corners. The boy who is left without a corner is the next fool.Blind man's buff is played like this. One boy puts a cloth on his eyes and he tries to catch another boy and if he succeeds the cloth is put on that boys eyes.Cat is played with four boys. You make two rings and then you get a small stick which is called a cat. Then two boys get two long sticks and they put them in the rings. The other two boys stand at each ring. Then one of them throws the short stick to one of the boys with the long stick and if it goes into the ring he is out.Tig is played like this. A number of boys stand round in a ring. The oldest boy gives out a rhyme. He hits(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killadoughran, Co. Westmeath
