School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 260
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- (continued from previous page)that lost her glove takes her place in the ring. Then the game starts again.
The way we play "Ghost in the Well" is : One lets on to be the mother and she sends her children to the well to wash their hands. Someone does be in the well (the ghost) and when we go they leap up out at us. Then we go home and tell whoever sent us to the well that there is a ghost in the well and then they come and the ghost leaps out and runs after us.
- The Drumlina road was made about twenty years ago. The men of the meeting of the county council told the people that were living(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Packie Mc Carvill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Peter Deighan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
