School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 06_012
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- (continued from previous page)ye cannot see her now". Then the girls who were walking around clap and say one, two, three, four. five, six, seven, wight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve to pretend that it is twelve o'clock.Then two girls join their hands together and they carry Jinny Joe to the graveyard to be burried. When they leave here at the graveyard they cry over her. After a while she gets to life again and follows them. Which ever one of them she catches will have to be Jinny Joe for next time.
- Knife and Fork: A number of girls gather together. Two of those should stand in a certain place. Then the rest of the girls catch hands and go out between the two girls who are standing. One of them who are standing is named the fork and the other the knife. These then ask the last girls which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Killeenmunterlane South, Co. Galway
