School: Cluainteach (C.), Newtownforbes
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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- (continued from previous page)persons' hands, and leaves the button in one of them. Then they all have to guess who has it, and those who guess wrong get a slap.
The children also play another game known as "Heavy, heavy what lies over you". To play this game a person lies down on the floor, and closes his eyes, and someone places a weight on him. Then he has to guess what is laid on him, and if he guesses wrong there is something heavier put on him, and so on till he guess right. Then he can get up and the person that put it on him has to lie down on the floor, and go through the same.
