School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Sráid an Mhuilinn (roll number 2278)
- Location:
- Millstreet, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0323, Page 251
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- This is how Forfeits are played. One girl sits down and closes her eyes and a number of Forfeits are put into a bag and the girl who has her eyes closed will give Forfeits for example she might tell the other girl to put her name through the key-hole.
- Chairs and tables may be played by any number of children. One child is selected to be the mother she (them) then sends all the others to town for messages when they come back she asks them "Where are the messages": and they reply "Up in the moon", she asks then, "how will I go up there", and they reply, "With Chairs and tables" and she say's then "What will I do if I fall down and they say "Mend you" she then hunts them.
