School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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- There is nothing children like better than playing games. These are the games we play in Oughterard.
Jack Stones
Four corner Fool
Hide and Seek
Fox and Geese
We amuse ourselves on a rainy day by making paper boats, making dools out of chestnuts, making animals of potatoes and by making photo frames out of card board.
Boys makes tops. of spools and cradle-birds for catching birds out of Sally switches. They make catapult for killing birds. They also make snares for catching rabits and hares out of thin wire. Siubhán Nic Fhlannchadha
Uachtarárd- Collector
- Siubhán Ní Fhlannchadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- On May Day people put up May Pole. May Pole is the tree known as Mountain Ash. It is pulled on the last day of(continues on next page)