School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)summer is "Duck down". We put a big stone in the middle of the field and we place a smaller stone on the top of it. Then we throw another stone and try to knock the other stone. If you knock the stone you must get the stone and put it on the big stone before anyone tigs you. If you get the tig before you put on the stone you cannot play the game because you are out of the play.
- Ireland is hallowed and sanctified by her holy wells as well as by the footsteps of her Saints, and there is scarcely a district which has not a holy well to boast of. In the Streamstown district there is at least five holy wells. These are:- St. Brigid's well in Killare, St David's well in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
