School: N. Peadair, Caisleán an Bharraigh (roll number 13787)
- Location:
- Carrowbrinoge, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 535
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- You can pass your time when you have no work to do by making things such as a top. You can make a top out of several things. You can make a top out of a turnip by getting the bottom of a turnip. You can make a top out of the handle of a spade. Cut the top of the handle and pair it, then get a nail and drive it in the point of it. You can also make a top out of a spool. First of all you pair the spool until you bring one end to a point. Then get a bit of a stick; you have to leave off the stick out and a point in it. You want to have the stick very tight.
A Bird Crib: You can make a bird crib out of sticks. First of all you make a frame with four sticks. Then you get four more thin sticks that wont break; you put one at each corner of the frame and catch the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mangan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coarsepark, Co. Mayo
