School: Tuar an Fhíona, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Tuar an Fhíona, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Coindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 250
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- The most important outdoors is Four Corner Fool. This is how we play it. If there are five to play it one of them steps out and repeats this rhyme :
Three little gipsys lived in a tent
They could not afford to pay their rent
The rent man came and turned them out
Gipsy, gipsy, you are out.
The person on whom the word 'out' falls on has to be the fool. The four more get on the stones and they begin to change places. If the fool is watching then he will surely get in someplace and then somebody else is the fool. That is the way to play it.
- We often play 'France' at home. We play it is as follows on hard bare ground(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Teidhirs
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cathair na Léige, Co. Phort Láirge
- Informant
- Dáithí Mach Craith
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal na Molt, Co. Phort Láirge
