School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)your bride. The child that is in the ring will take another child and so on till all the children is in the ring.Beating the boar to bed.
Beating the boar to bed is played in this way. Ten boys stand round in a ring. One boy is the boar and the other boy is beating him to bed with a stick. If the boy that is called the boar gets in to the ring the right hand side of one of the boys then that boy is the boar, and the boy that was the boar before stands in his place that is how its played.- Informant
- Joe Milton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beihy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mary Whitney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beihy, Co. Leitrim