School: Cill Chóirne (C.) (roll number 8829)
- Location:
- Kilcorney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)9. Four Corner Fool.
Four children stand at four corners of a room and the fool stands in the middle The children at the corners try to exchange places and the fool try to get to a corner and make fool of somebody else and so on.10. birín beó, birín marbh
Children pass a lighting cipín around the house from one to one while saying
birín beo, birín marbh.
Is dá bfagad birín beo bás in do dhá láimh beidh an trom trom ort.
The child in whose hand the cipín dies will be put kneeling down and several articles put up on its back which it must guess and so on.
