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 play hide and go seek Then three or four would seek and the rest would hide. Then when they were hid they would shout and the others would look for them.
Their chief play was throwing a stone. The girls would get five round stones and go playing Jackstones. Then they would play high gates or frog in the middle. Another game they had was to say, hoppy hoppy. horse a leen gist and gist how many miles from this to Garryland, four score(continues on next page)- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare