School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- An Cartún, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 411
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at night when the children gather together and one of them puts a cloth across his eyes and starts after the rest and when he catches one he puts the cloth on them.
See saw is played by getting barrel and leave it lying down then get a flat stick and put it over it then two children get one one on each end and weigh up and down.
High windows are played by a crowd of children standing a circle with their hands joined and two get out and play tig in and out among them and when they are tired two more get out and so on.
Round the green gravel is played by a crowd of children standing in a circle and the say a poem which is round the green gravel the grass grows green how many ladys fit to be seen; washed in milk dried (is) in silk last hops down and the child(continues on next page)
