School: Corcaghan (roll number 16129)
- Location:
- Corr Cheachan, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: F. Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 230
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Boys and girls play a good many games around here.
The boys play kicking football, hiding a treasure, pitching pennies and also another game which is called "Tom fool in the middle."
The girls play a good may games too such as, Hide and go seek, Blind man's buff, Skipping and also Comogie. Football is played with a ball and two long sticks standing up in the ground representing goals. If you kick the ball through the goals it is called a goal and if you kick it over the goals it is called a point. Hiding the treasure is played by a little white stone rolled up in a piece of paper. Then two people hide it and who ever gets it first hides it(continues on next page)
