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School: Gurteen, Ballymahon

Location:
Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
Teacher:
F. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 140

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    The games I play are Blind Man's Buff. Fox and Chickens. French Tig, High Gates, Ghost in the Well, Hide and go Seek, Tig, Sheep, Sheep come Home, Frog in the Well. Frog Jump, Follow me mother to Cashel Colours, Corners Round the Green Grass, Gold Watch and Gold Chain and Sitting Tig.
    How Blind Man's Buff is played is one child put something on her eyes and try to catch someone.
    The way French Tig is every two children get together, and one stand behind the other and stretch out their arms and two come out and have the tig and whichever of them has the tig will follow the other person & if she gets in to two childrens arms without getting the tig, she is safe then there will be three standing together & the last one will
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Kenny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ledwithstown, Co. Longford