School: Coracrin
- Location:
- Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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- Insummer the children play a lot of games. One called King of The Castle this is played in a height by one child calling herself King of the Castle while the others try to pull her down.
There is another one called Ring a Ring a Rosey a bottle a bottle a posie all the whiskey in the town couldn't knock me down
There is a nother one called Here is the robbers coming through it is played by two forming an arch. it is supposed that they have two different things like one having an apple and the other an orange. they keep saying
Here is the robbers coming through coming
take the keys and lock her up,
lock her up
