School: Moylough (C.) (roll number 13832)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Margaret Devine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0070
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- (continued from previous page)hands tied behind you back in five minutes.Another game is to get three saucers put clean water in one, clay in an other, and a ring in the other. Then tie a cloth round your eyes and see which of the saucers will you put your hand in. If you put your hand in the clay you will die soon. If you put your hand on the ring you will marry soon and if you put your hand on the water you will cross the sea.Also this game is played. Go into the cabbage plot with a cloth on your eyes and pull a head of cabbage. If you pull a head with a long stem you will have a rich man and if you pull a head with a small stem you would have a poor small man.On that night we also have a cake with a ring, a button, a little bit of a rod, and a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Durcan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballincurry, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Durcan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballincurry, Co. Sligo
