School: Rathmore, Tullow

Location:
Rathmore, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chonchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 084

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  1. The games that I like best is hide an seek. When we hid we say "coot". The second game is ring a rosie. We go around in a ring and we say, Ring a ring a rosie. The third one is frog in the middle catch all you can. The forth is running races and we say ready, steady, go. The fifth one is the cat and the mouse. We say beir air. We amus ourselves at Hollowe'en in cracking nuts and ducking for the apple. We take up the apple out of a bath of water with our mouths
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gretta Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Straboe, Co. Carlow
  2. The games I like best is tig. We run around the yard and hit one another and say tig Then you are "after". We play marbles. We peg one marble to knock out another and say. I won We play filly four corners. We get into four corners one in in each corner and one in the middle to be the fool We call each other and if the fool gets before us in a corner we are the fool. At Christmas we put apples down into a tub of water and we put down our heads and try to take it up in our mouth. We play draughts. We move draughts and try to leap men and try to get in kings. We play rotton pot We sit down and two
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