School: Conaithe an Aonaigh
- Location:
- Conna, Co. Cork
- Teacher: S. Ó Ciosáin
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- The games we play in school are pickie, [...] -boys, spy, and queenie.
To play pickie squares are drawn on the ground. The player gets a stone and places it in the first bed. The she kicks it out from square to square without letting it go on the line until she comes to the fifth bed. Here she kicks it out and then she starts in the second bed and kicks the stone through each bed without hopping twice in one bed or hopping on the stone. If you stood on the line or hopped twice in one bed or let both feet on ground you would be out and another should commence playing.
[...] boys is played by drawing two lines a little bit away from one another. One person would stand in the farthest away line. Then the children would come to the other line and would say. "Three little [...] boys looking for work", if there was more than three they would mention four or five or whatever number would be there. Then they would signs like washing(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eily Sinclair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghern West, Co. Cork