School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 561
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- 1) Football
2) Hide and go seek
3) I spy
4) Prisoners
5) High cock cock in the corner
6) Hares and Hounds
7) Leap frog
8) Rounders
9) Cricket
10) Hop scotch
11) Quoits
12) Electric eel
13) Jack stones
14) Handball
15) Hurley
16) Barrow race
17) Tugowar
18) The dummey's band
19) Donkey
20) Marbles
21) Pass the batton
22) Horse and cart
23) The sack race
24) Wild cats
25) Running tick
26) Stooping tick
27) Buailim ort laigim leat
28) Pitch and Jug
29) High windows
Indoor Games1) Blind mans buff
2) Duck fly
3) Pass the brush
4) The devil and his angels
5) Half-past
I SPYAny number of boys or girls can play this game.First of all a few boys gather together and are a (?) suggests to play the game well he has to turn in towards the wall and put his finger out behind his back. Then all the boys crowd around him and one boy tips him on the finger then he turns around and picks out some boy and says that it was he. Then the boy whom he picks out asks him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Enda Kilgallon
- Gender
- Male
