School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 432
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- These are games I play :- "Tig," "Hide and go Seek," "Ring-a-ring-a-Rosy," "Jack Stones," "The big ship sails," "Skittles," "The Gost in the garden," "Little-bo-peep," "Dan, Dan, thread the Needle," "Skipping," "Blind man's buff," "Hot feet," "Football," "hurling," "High gates," "Frog in the middle," "Pot-hooks and Hangers," "Pitch and toss," "Tip-cal! "Cards" "Playing School," "Making baby houses," "Playing shop," "Hand-ball," "Donkey," (this is a game played with a hand ball), "King of Rifles," "Forty jugs of rye, Sir," "Good eggs and bad eggs." "Guess"
In Autumn when the nuts and black-berries are ripe, we go pick them. Nuts grow in Shea's land in Ballyduff and black - berries grow very plentiful around here.
1. Tig -
One child follows others and whoever she touches she has then to follow
2. Hide and go Seek. -
One child searches for all the others who are hid.
3. Ring-a-Ring-a-Rosy:-
All the children get into a ring and say(continues on next page)
