School: Irishtown
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret McNally
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- Folklore Games I play
The games.
I pass my leisure time by playing the following games. I get a ring of flat stones and put them round me and I make sure to have a cane and I slap the stones round me till my arm is tired. I call that game teaching and it is my favourite game.
Shops
When my mother empties flour bags and paper bags, I take them and fill them with clay and stones. I get a box and fill it with stones and have it as money. I go to a nearby river and catch pinkeens and sell them as fish. I have then a very well stocked shop.House
I pull all the Bucklans I can get and decorate an old wall with them and build a Summer house and I get pieces of broken china and delph which we call chainies and then I imagine I am a housekeeper.
- Collector
- Phyllis Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Irishtown, Co. Westmeath
