School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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- (continued from previous page)dolls out of rags and some make them of fine straw. Boys make cribs for catching birds. A crib is made of sticks and cord. They also make snares out of wire for catching rabbits. they are made by getting three r four bits of wire and twisting them together. Children also make puff-balls. These are made out of heads of cowslips. First get a bit of thread and them put the heads of the cowslips in a row along the thread and then tie the two ends of the thread together.
- Boys make whistles out of chestnuts. they gather the chestnuts in the harvest time when they fall off the trees. They scoop a hole in the chestnut and break the white stuff into little bits and empty it out of the shell. Boys also make spinning tops. They get a thick round piece of wood and make little ridges round about the piece of wood. They make it wide at the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Cash
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killoughy, Co. Offaly
