School: Killashandra (C.) Convent
- Location:
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. M. Cornillius
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0984, Page 264
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- (continued from previous page)Grey will you let me out to play" - and, "the fox and the chickens."
Boys play different games than girls. They play tat and skittles. The way to play hide-and-seek is as follows. A lot of children gather together and one of them says a rhymn such as "Eackel, eackel porter bottle out jumps the cork" and the person on whom the word cork falls on is out.
For tig there is a rhymn also which is "pg snout walk out and out goes you" and who ever the word "you" falls on is out.
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Creenagh Glebe, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mary Ellen Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Creenagh Glebe, Co. Cavan
