School: Collon (B.) (roll number 14578)
- Location:
- Collann, Co. Lú
- Teacher: B. Mac Searraigh
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- (continued from previous page)is I make a square with chalk and divide it into five little squares next I get a stone and fling it into, the first square, them into the second square until I get it into the five squares. The way we play long tig is first we all run to a certain spot and who ever is last he is the tigger. He runs and tigs another boy and they join hands and so on until he tigs them all.
- The games I play at home and at school are football, marbles, tig, spinning tops, hand-ball, and leap frog. We amuse ourselves greatly by playing these games. The way to spinning a top is to get a top and cord and a whipp, wind the cord round the top and throw it on the ground, pull the cord and the top will spin. Then get the whip(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Johnson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenmore, Co. Lú
- Informant
- Mr Johnston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenmore, Co. Lú
