School: Killashandra (C.) Convent
- Location:
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. M. Cornillius
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0984, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)get stones and one person gets none and she tries to get everyone else.
Another game we are very fond of playing is blind mans buff. A crowd of children meet together and play this game, one of them is blind-folded and gropes to catch one of the others and when she gets one of them she is blind-folded and so on.
Another game they play both boys and girls is tat. They get a short pointed stick and a long one. They put the short one sitting on a stone and hit it with the long one. They call the stone the granny, the short one the tat, and the long one the dog. When the tat flies someone gets it and throws it back and if she hits the granny she is out.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Lizzie Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Cavan
