School: Roxboro, Luimneach (roll number 15680)
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Gheallagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0525, Page 045
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- XML “Games we Play Outdoor”
- XML “Leap-Frog”
- XML “Cap-Ball”
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- (continued from previous page)first wins the game.
- Any number of boys can play this game. All the boys go in a line about 4 yards apart from each other and stoop down. Then a boy runs along and jumps over each of them in turn. When he has jumped over all he stoops down himself and the boy at the end of the line jumps them all again and so on. A mark is put in the field and who ever reaches it wins the game.
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- Collector
- Maurice Clifford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberyquin, Co. Limerick
