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School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

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Colehill, Co. Longford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 197

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    onto the centre and every one had to work his or her needle and thread and sing a song at the same time until the whole lot had a song a piece sung How Slap and guess was played was A person was blindfolded and sat in the middle of the floor, with his hands behind his back, A person came up behind him and gave him a slap on his hand. Then the blindfolded person got up and seatched for the person that gave the slap and when he got him he had to be blindfolded and take the other persons place and so on until the game was finished
    Alice Mc Cormack aged 15yrs I got this information from James Cassidy aged 12 yrs who resides at Abbeyshrule
    Colehill,
    Mullingar
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Informant
    James Cassidy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Abbeyshrule, Co. Longford