School: Cratloe (C.)
- Location:
- An Chreatalach Mhór, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 181
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- I play many games in school and at home. At school I play tig, spy, skipping, jumping, running, races, colours, and playing horse. At home I play hopscotch, rolling hoops, swinging and four corners. On Winter nights I pass the time away by playing cards, puicin, draughts, ludo, Rings, Snakes and ladders, Blind man's Buff and the different games of cards, snap, donkey, forty fives and twenty fives.
When I am playing tig I gather a crowd of my companions and we suggest a place for a home or a "den". Then one person counts "P, i, g, you have the tig. Who ever tig falls on has to follow the crowd. When the person catches somebody he says tig. Then the person he has caught has to follow.
Spy is played by, a crowd of children go hiding and one or two children hides their face. After a while the person with his face hid goes on search of the rest. When he sees them he says "spy" and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc na Bríce Thoir, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Michael Gleeson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cnoc na Bríce Thoir, Co. an Chláir
