School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 097
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The pop-gun was made by getting an elder stick five or six inches long and taking the bore out of it. Then get another stick a few inches longer so that it will slip through the bored stick. Then you stick a piece of wet paper in at each end and shove the other stick down half way and the paper goes off with a pop.
Bird-cradle
The bird cradle is made by getting a lot of middling thick elder sticks and placing layer after layer of sticks on top of each other then tying them together(continues on next page)
