School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)twelve inches long and tie a piece of chord at one end of it, and tie it firmly to. Then by lashing the top when it got to spin around on the road. This is I think the most amusing game of all for children.
During the long Winter nights when some children are tired of other games. They would play Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Draughts and cards, or sit down by the fire reading or storytelling
- On Shrove Tuesday the old custom was to make pancakes, and put a ring in them, in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonkeen, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonkeen, Co. Laois
