School: Baile Deasún (C.)
- Location:
- Ballydesmond, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhurchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 583
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- (continued from previous page)Various games are played by the children of this district. Each evening after school they can be observed playing their favourite game. Tips, high-gates, broken-bridges, hide and seek, swinging, and skipping are highly indulged. Many evenings children may be seen in groups playing hide and seek. This game they all appreciate very much. When hide and seek is being playing a large number of children are usually present. One child recites some little verse as ittle attle black bottle ittle attle out two cherries in a plate and one drops out." "The one who gets the word "out" is then blind-folded for a few minutes. Then she goes in search of her companions. The first one who(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lil Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kingwilliamstown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John W. Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kingwilliamstown, Co. Cork
