School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)and ten will I be there at candle light, yes and back again, then all would run to see which would be first. Another game follow my mother to market to buy a penny basket. They would put one out first and all coming behind her saying "follow my mother to market to buy a penny basket. Then she would turn back and beat the first one she would catch,
On the Sundays after Mass all the boys used go pitching buttons. These buttons were as precious as money and they would have them all put in to a long string. Then they had tops and used make a ring to put the top all around it. Long ago the girls used go(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
