School: Kiffa

Location:
Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 079

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  1. The games we play out door at school are "Dan, Dan thread the needle Ginny sew the sack." A hen and a flock of chickens", and Ghost in the garden.
    How we play the first one is the children get in a row and two others go away and make up something such as one have an apple and the other an orange then the row of children, pass through these two children's hands singing "Dan Dan thread the needle Ginny sew the sack" and the last child stops at
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maud Lowry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graddum, Co. Cavan