School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)the horses with their husbands in olden times.
- Very often girls make chains from daisies and wear these on their hair or round their neck and some girls (a) wear them for a belt.
Girls very often make a musical instrument form the comb or placing a tissue paper over (th) it and blowing into it.
Sometimes girls make dolls from an old hankerchief and put them in a house made by them from stone and pretend that they are living children.
The boys around this district make the following toys, tops, horns and slings.
To make a top, a spool is pared(continues on next page)
