School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 132
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- The games I play are:- hide, colours, four-corner-fool, hunt, skipping, blind man's buff, and high ranks. In Autumn I amuse myself by rambling through the fields picking nuts and picking blackberries and making jam of them. In Spring I amuse myself by picking flowers and making daisy chains and also searching for bird's nests. In Winter when the days are wet and cold I sit around the fire and read storybooks to amuse myself. Boys amuse themselves by making snares, and bird baskets in Winter.
Blind man's buff is played in the following manner:- One girl puts a piece of cloth over her eyes and then the other girls run around her and she tries to catch them. The person that she catches must then cover her eyes and so on.
Four-corner fool is played with five girls. One girl stands at each of four corners and one in the middle. The girl in the middle is called the fool. The other girls run from one corner to another and the fool tries to get to their places while they are running. The person whose place that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Hayes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
