School: Ballyfasey, Glenmore (roll number 9880)
- Location:
- Ballyfasy Lower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Domhnall Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 534
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- (continued from previous page)he is to catch some one of the others in the kitchen. Catty is a game by girls with a short piece of stick pointed at both ends. "Cunnie sé the ma ma ma" or hide the button in which a button is hidden by one of them in one of the children's hand and whichever of them is guessing guesses wrongly he will get a slap on the hand and the person who guesses rightly he or she will be left hide it and the person that hid it before will have to guess. Skittles is a game played by boys with five small sticks called skittles and three big one's called pelters. Hide and go seek is a game played by children in which all but one has to go ahide and that one has to search for them. Snap apple is a game played by and girls on November Eve by snapping at an apple tied from a cord the ceiling with your mouth. "Ring a ring of roses, "Pockets full of posies, Chainies on the ditches. Picking sally switches. All fall down.
- Collector
- Michael Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyvoulera or Moulerstown, Co. Kilkenny
