School: Leath-árdán
- Location:
- Lahardaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Games played Locally 7:5:238Hide-and-go-seek. This is the way the girls play it. A few girls will make a den, and one of the girls will say "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. All those good children go to heaven. When they die their sins are forgiven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven." The girl that the last seven fall on, that one will have to seek, until the rest of the girls are hiding. Then the girl that is caught will have to seek and follow the rest of the girls. So the play like that for a while. At night time the young people play hurly, burly thrump a thray. The cow was sold the market day. Simon sally hunt the buck. How many horns stand up. One of the children will stoop down, and another one will strike the one on the back that is stooped. While he says that rhyme. Then when he says "How many horns stand up, he will hold his hand up, and ask how many.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockfarnaght, Co. Mayo