School: Drumkerl
- Location:
- Droim Choirill, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Aoidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0970, Page 241
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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. - All the people set around in a ring, and one gets out in the middle, and goes around everyone and cries at them like a cat. This is done three times. They have to say "Poor Old Pussy", and if any of them laugh, that person has to go out in the middle.
- All that is required is four large stones. Then one person is selected to be the fool. Then four others stand on each of the four stones which must be in a square and about 2 yards apart.
Then any of the boys exchange places, when they are changing, the fool
