School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)
- Location:
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 330
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- (continued from previous page)one of them counts twenty and who ever it falls upon has the pookogue.
Then there is a cloth tied around the person's eyes so that they won't see. All the rest of them go down to the end of the room and the one who has the pookogue suns around after them and tries to catch some of them and who ever is caught has to do the same as the first one.
- The different kinds of games I play are as follows:-
Pookogue, Jig, Hide and Seek, Corners, Buttons, Jig and coming to see Jenny and how is she now.
The games which I play most frequently and which I prefer to any of the other games are Hide and Seek and Sea-Saw.
Hide and Seek is played in the following manner
There is one child or sometimes two picked out from the other children and they are put outside the door until the rest of the children are hidden. When the children are hidden they call out "cuckoo(continues on next page) - Collector
- Brigid Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghchurnel, Co. Longford
