School: Achadh na Sealbhaighe (roll number 15344)
- Location:
- Aghnashalvy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Maguidhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0952, Page 127
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- Games Played Formerly
and now.
Many of the games which were played in former times, about forty or fifty years ago are hardly ever played now. As a rule each season of the year in times gone by, had its own set game.
About Chtistmas boys and girls played a type of game with pins which we never see played at present. The game was played mostly in two ways viz. by guessing "odd or even" and by what was called "covering".
In the first case the boy or girl took a number of pins and having closed the hand on them, held it out (so closed) asking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Rooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcreen, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Thomas Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
