School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)Each forfeit is held up and its owner gets something to do with it which would be difficult.
Spanish Visitors:-
All the players go around the biggest one and she takes the smallest by the hand. One by one, the spanish visitor takes the children away till the only the youngest remains. She is also taken but is brought back to the mother and told she is neither beautiful nor rich. The mother chases the crowd and the first caught has to be the mother the next time.
Púicín:-
A blindfold is put on one and he has to chase the rest about till he catches someone. The person whom he catches is to be blindfolded next.
Colours:-
A crowd of girls gather(continues on next page)
