School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)

Location:
Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
(name not given)
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 09_044

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 09_044

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Newtown, Kells
  2. XML Page 09_044
  3. XML “Games I Play”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    along under the arch made by the two girls but the last one.
    That girl guesses one of the things one of the girls has thought of and so on, as according as they pass along they go behind the two girls and pull like tug of war at the end and the game is over.
    Tig is a common game every where, when it is being given out the person says "One two sky blue, all out but you."
    Whatever girl the word "you" falls on has the 'tig'
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Lawlor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilree, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr John Lawlor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    Kilree, Co. Kilkenny