School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 042
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- There were many old games which the children long ago loved to play. Some of them are still played at the present day for example:- Hide and go seek, Blind Man's Buff, High Windows, and Jack stones.
Any number of children may play Blind Man's Buff. One child puts a cover on her eyes so that she will not see the rest of the children. Then she runs round and round after them trying to catch them, and the first child she catches must put on the cover and so on.
High Windows is played in the open air, and any number of children may take part. All the children catch hands and make a big circle and one child runs round and takes out another chld and when she is "tug" the other child takes out some one else and so on.
"Hide and go seek" is played by all the children hiding except one who goes in search of all the children.
- Collector
- Gerty Currid
- Gender
- Female
