School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)To Pat McCaraill's daughter (or who's ever daughter she is).
Then they start again with 'Round the green gravel' etc.
- The names of games I play are: Tig: Round the geen gravel: Here the leaves come floating down: The Cat and the mouse: The Ghost in the well: The button: Going to school: Jug-jug: Churn the buttermilk: Shake the blanket: Frogs: Hide and go seek: tumbling head over heels.
The games I play, at the fire are: Onery (Wunnery) hurry; give riddles: tell pants.
The way tig is played is a crowd of children make a ring One child goes round the ring and hits some other person(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
