School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- Long ago when the children would be let out to play. They would run along the road, go hurling or jumping or playing hide and seek Two would go and seek, and the others would hide and shout when they were hid. Then the two would come and look for them. Then two more would seek.
Their chief play was throwing a stone. The girls would get five round tones and go paying jackstones. Then they would play high gates or frog in the middle and can't come out. Another game the had was to say hoppy hoppy horse a leen, gist and gist how many(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
