School: Gleann Fhaoilidh (Gleneely)
- Location:
- Gleneely, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Fhinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)When I am at home I make slides. If I would think it would be going to freeze I would throw water on the ground to make it slippery. In the long Winter nights we sit round the fire telling stories putting out riddles on one another. Sometimes I play Blind Man's Buff with my sister. I play cards some nights.
In the Autumn I am out in the fields tieing corn and riding on the reaper and playing round the sheaves. Then in the evenings I go to the fields to play and look at the animals grazing in the fields. When I am at school we run about to warm ourselves. We play tag and hide and go seek.
In the Spring I am at school always we play about through the yards keeping ourselves warm. Then if the days are warm we play some(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Bradley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumcannon, Co. Donegal
