School: Twomilehouse (roll number 2284)
- Location:
- Twomilehouse, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Tomás Bineidh
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- Tig
To play this game, all the players stand in a row and one of them gives out a rhyme, to see who will have the tig first such as follows.
"T.I.G. (Tig) spells tig
When my father wore a wig,
When he died he told me
To give out the old Irish tig."
The player on whom the last word falls has the tig. Then all the other players run away and she follows them and the player she tips first has the tig then.Hide and go Seek
To play the game the seeker turns her face to the wall. All the other(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Esther Leonard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnstown or Dunshane, Co. Kildare
