School: Bellanagare (roll number 2968)
- Location:
- Bellanagare, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Dochair
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bellanagare
- XML Page 120
- XML “The Games I Play”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There are many games played by the children in my district on winter evenings. The games which are played are colours, hopscotch, highgates skipping, seesaw and catching. The games played in the spring are colours, skipping, seesaw and catching. Those which I enjoy best are colours, high gates, hopscotch and see-saw. Colours can be played out - of doors on a fine spring's evening. A large number of children gather together in a field.
Two of the children go away from the rest of the children while a third child gives different colours to the others. When every child has a colour the two children appointed come and call for the colours. When all the colours are called the two children take hands and the other children join behind them and each side pulls against each other. Whichever side breaks loose the game.
See-saw is a vey nice game and can be played by two children. A long plank is placed on a high log of wood. The children sit on each end of the plank and weigh up and down singing gaily. High gates is a game very much practised. A number of children join hands and form a circle and a girl stands in the centre of the circle and counts on the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Geraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Bellanagare, Co. Roscommon