School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)This is how "hide and go seek" is played. A lot of children go to hide and one child stays behind in a certain place, after a minute or so the will go to look for them. The other children have to try to get into the place before she catches them. Ghost in the garden is another game we play. One child sends other children for certain things and they come back and say there is a ghost in the garden, then they will all go out again and the ghost follows them.
- I play a lot of games I play colours and Tig in the long summer evenings. How colours is played. Tell each child a colour one of them goes aay and another gives out the colours. the one that goes away comes back and she follows each one of the. If she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elsie Doolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lowerton Beg, Co. Offaly
