School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 411
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- (continued from previous page)square first. Then make smaller squares up all along until you reach the top placing the sticks in rows above one another
To make a hurley, get a hurley block or a flat piece of timber about nine inches wide and three feet long. Cut or shave it down until it is thin enough for a hurley Then get another hurley and put the shape of it on the block. Mark it with a pencil and then cut the waste timber until you come to the pencil mark. Then shave it with a plane or a spokeshave.
- Tops can be made from two sorts of timber, beech and oak. There are two classes of tops One is called the whipping top and the other a pegging top. The whipping top is made with a common boot nail for a spear. It has a flat head and is flogged with a whip made from twines.
The pegging top is of a different shapes, it is tapered downward to the spear, with small ridges around it to prevent the cord for slipping off.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kevin Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pass, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Moore
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pass, Co. Clare
