School: Castlegal (C.) (roll number 15966)
- Location:
- Castlegal, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Oireachtaigh
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- (continued from previous page)is on till the rhime is finished. We sing nearly all the rhimes.
A mouses pussy peepy. We have a ring and one girl is the mouse and the other a cat. Then one runs after the other till she catches her.In how many miles to Galway we have a straight line across and the girls at each end have to answer each other. Then one runs in under the other ones arm. Colours. There is someone to give out colours and another for the listener. And if the listener cannot answer it. "Suppose it was red" the other one would say go home and wash your red face. The same way with all the birds in the air. Everyone gets the name of a bird and the listener tries to find it out.
"Here are some of the games I play around the fire. Pictures in the fire and Blind mans buff. You think you could see pictures in the fire.In blind mans buff one child puts on a cloth on her eyes and goes chasing the other ones.
- Collector
- Mary Mc Gee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawly, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tom Mc Gee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
