School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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- (continued from previous page)the leather and tied them.
I often made a buzzer. First I got a button and put a long piece of thread through the hole and tied the two ends of the thread then I got my fingers in through the thread and pulled it and it buzzed.
Long ago the children made marbles out of clay. They got yellow clay along the bank of a river. The water dashing on the clay made it yellow. When they got the clay if it was dry they wet it and rolled it into a marble and put it on the hob of the fire. They left it on the hob for about an hour until it got hard enough not to brake when they played with them.
The way to make a bow and arrow is to cut an ash stick about 2 ft in length. Then we bend the stick and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
