School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)

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Cnoc na Manach, Co. Chorcaí
Teacher:
Dáithí de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 181

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  3. XML “The Games I Play - Nuts and May”
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    and May nuts and May nuts and May who will we have for nuts and May on a cold and frosty morning. Then the other crowd will say we will have Miss..... for nuts and May on a cold and frosty morning. Then the other crowd will say we will have Miss.... to pull her away on a cold and frosty morning. The two that were called out will pull each other. Who ever will pull the most children will win the game.
    Pauline Barry Tracton Kinsale.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. The words we use are. As I was in the kitchen doing a bit of stitching in comes a boody man and I ran out.
    Whoever is out last must hunt the other girls.
    There is another verse played with tig. Doctor Foster was a good master he whipped the scholars now and again, every
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí sóisialta (~7)
        1. siamsaíocht agus caitheamh aimsire (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Tiobraid, Co. Chorcaí