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School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)

Location:
Owning, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Sr. M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0844, Page 087

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    While I indulge in various forms of other athletic sports hurling and football and football are my outdoor games.
    Indoors, during the long winter nights especially, Billards, Cards, Studies in Literature, History, Languages, Philosphy and Poetic Composition enable me to while away the uneventful hours.
    Bird-nesting, flower-gathering, nut cracking and skating are at the differrent seasons of the year respectively the lure an delight of the young.
    "Hide and go seek" is a form of sport which girls and boys enjoy. All the participants of this game formed a ring. A special formula
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Honney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyhenebery, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr M. Honney
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    57
    Address
    Ballyhenebery, Co. Kilkenny