School: Tobar Rua (roll number 15427)
- Location:
- Toberroe East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Mhuireagáin
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- (continued from previous page)hands and feet these bits of wood are sometimes moulded into shape. Then little coloured beads are sewn on for eyes while the nose and mouth are worked out in thread. A dress is made then and put on the doll. Seventy or eighty years ago an old woman used to go from place to place selling these dolls at a penny each. Sometimes some wetted clay is formed into the shape of animals, dolls, etc. After some time the clay becomes hard and dry. Boys make "cribs" to catch birds in, "pop-guns" from elder bushes and tops from empty thread spools.
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- Collector
- Kathleen Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keeloges East, Co. Galway