School: Gurteen, Ballymahon
- Location:
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: F. Ó Murchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 142
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Gurteen, Ballymahon
- XML Page 142
- XML “Games I Play”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)get into a lone & one gives out the tig saying "Icle Acle black bottle Iscle Acle out", & keeps on saying that until they are all out but one & that one has the tig.
How Sheep Sheep come home is played is, all the children stand along in a line another stands over from them to be the mother & another stands up in a corner to be the wolf & the mother will say "Sheep Sheep come home" & and they will say "we can't" & the mother will say "why" & they will say "because the wolf" & she will say "the wolf is gone away & won't be seen for many a day" & they will all run & the wolf will come and catch them.
How frog in Well is played is all the children get into a line and one goes into the middle, and closes her eyes and trys to catch someone.
This is how Frog Jump is played. All the children stoop(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ledwithstown, Co. Longford
