Local Games

Geney Joe.- At first two girls sit on a chair one holding the other.

INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns, Age 40, Manulla, Co. Mayo

National Folklore Collect, Dùchas.ie, School Collection, School LifeMargaret Kearns5 May 2018Games, school daysComment

Hedge-School

There was a hedge school in Michael Brady's land in the village of Rushill in the parish of Balla, Co. Mayo.

INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo

John Kennedy, Hedge school, Dùchas.ie, School Collection, School LifeJohn Kennedy17 April 2018Michael Kennedy, Kennedy, school days, Hedge schoolsComment

Games

INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo

John Kennedy, Games, Crafts, Dùchas.ie, School Collection, School LifeJohn Kennedy15 April 2018Games, childhood, school daysComment

Local Games

Every night we play this game around the fire........

Bí o néal, néal a brobán, brobán súla, súla seicne, ár lomán, lóman leic, cor na giell isteach go Flaitheas.

They keep saying that rhyme until every-one has his foot pulled in.

National Folklore Collect, School Life, Social, Dùchas.ie, History & FolkoreAnnie M. Reilly24 March 2018Games, Reilly, school daysComment

Hedge-School

Hedge schools once exist in Ireland up to the 1850's. They shorthly closed after a national education system came into existence. Here are a few stories from locals from back in 1938 given their accounts of Hedge Schools.

Source-Dúchas.ie

National Folklore Collect, Mary A. O' Doherty, School Life, Dùchas.ieDúchas12 March 2018Patrick Reilly, Annie M. Reilly, Michael Kennedy, Annie Mc Nicholas, John Mc Nicholas, Mary A. O' Doherty, Maisie Reilly, Martin Reilly, Margaret Ruane, John Murphy, Hedge schools, school daysComment

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