School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)Five six break up sticks
Seven eight a penny weight
Nine ten a clocking hen
Eleven twelve dig and delve
Thirteen fourteen catch a crow
Fifteen sixteen let him go
Seventeen eighteen pluck its head
Nineteen twenty kill him dead.
Hide the gully, hide the gully, wee, wee, wee,
High windows, Old grannie grey, The witch in the well, Hide-and-seek, Duck, pitching. - People play marbles about the month of March. They play Blind Man's Buff and Hide-and-Seek and Tig. Some people play Sugar Bowl others Rounders and High Windows. They play all these games through the summer.
- There are not as many houses now in the parish as was long ago. There used to be sixteen houses in Parkmore, there are only five or six in it now. The houses long ago were thatched(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Doreen Holman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Parkmore, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary A. Mc Garvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Parkmore, Co. Donegal