School: Sruth Nua
- Location:
- Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás de Brún
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Games
A game was played at a wakes long ago called Horth a Broogue. All the young men would form two lines on the middle of the floor. They would sit on the floor each ones shoes facing another persons shoes on the opposite line One man was put standing on the middle between he two rows. They would have a straw rope about a yard long called a sugan. This sugan was passed from one to one under the knees of the rows
Each one that got a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Niland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newbrook, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Niland
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
