School: Loughcrew (roll number 6488)
- Location:
- Loughcrew, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlis, Bean Uí Sheinchín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 032
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- Home Made Toys18-3-38I once made a barrow for playing with out of a box. I often brought loads of clay and sticks with it. I once made a trick of a bicycle out of parts of an old one, it used to carry me round the house, but there were no tyres or tubes on it. Some time ago I made handles for shovels and rakes and spades and grapes for working with. I once made a hut out of scraws for chickens. I made handles for awls, hammers, chisels, and knives. I have a set of tools but the handles are not very sound. One day I started to make a table and a chair, but I broke the handle in the hammer. I made a small box out of pieces of boards, and now it is kept at the fire in the sitting room for holding turf.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bertie Robinson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan
