School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)colours, rounders, hide and seek, skipping, and many others which would take to long to mention. The games mentioned above are outdoors amusements.
Rounders are played with a number of girls. Then two terms are picked, a coin is flung in the air, the sides are taken, one team in the ring and the other in the field.
It is a most enjoyable thing to watch the little children play games with one another. They have many little rhymes which they make up themselves.
When they are playing "tig" they say Ink, pink, perry wind out goes you, and when they are playing, "little dry at home", they say. I have a little dog at home, he wont bite you nor you but he will take a big bite out of you.
In autumn during the blackberry season, the children enjoy themselves immensely picking blackberries, and you would see them going along in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Murphy
- Gender
- Female
