School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)
- Location:
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mag Fhloinn
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- Coateens:- All the girls stand round in a ring and hold up their hands high. One girl will go round and say, "Black coat", "white coat", "blue coat" and so on until she has gone round two or three times. Then she points to some girl and says, "God's coat", and that girl leaves the ring and follows her in and out under the hands under the hands until she catches her. The girl that was called out is the next to begin the game. She calls out somebody else who runs after her.
- Frog in the pan:- All the girls stand round in a ring. Another girl stands in the middle of them. She closes her eyes and tries to catch them, while they say(continues on next page)