School: Cnoc an Éin, Cuinche
- Location:
- Knockanean, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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6. "Games "The games I play are hide and seek>Four corners.Tig .Tops, marbles ,Rounders,Duck and London bridge.Hide and seek and Four Corners are played during the year .Tig in Winter.Tops in Spring.Marbles in Summer,Rounders,Duck and London Bridge all the year.This is the way we play Hide and seek.Five stand in a row and the other one says "two" to her.Then they seek down .The others go in hide.The ones seeking down say "hide is up"ad they go and find the ones in hide.One is left to mind the den.When they are got they seek in .This the way Four Corners is played. Four stand an equal distance away ,two at each side and one in the middle who is called the "middle man"gets one of the vacant places.the one who was in the place has to be the "middle man".We follow her around and tig each other. Marbles are played this way.We make a round ring and a long line a distance away from the ring .One gets a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary M. Brooks
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Joe Brooks
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Creggaun, Co. Clare
