School: Ráth Chormaic (B.) (roll number 1598)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 399c
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- XML “Games We Play - Duck on the Granny”
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- (continued from previous page)boy is caught before he goes back to the base he must put his duck on the granny
- One boy hunts and the first boy that is caught joins hands with him and hunts with him. The next caught joins hands also and so on until all the boys are caught. The first caught hunts win the next game
- Informant
- Seán Ó Riordáin
- Gender
- Male
- One boy acts as fox. The other boy acts as mother of all the chickens. The fox tries to get the chickens and their mother endeavours to prevent the fox from doing so.
