1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

Location:
Listowel, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Brian Mac Mathúna
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 414

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 414

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
  2. XML Page 414
  3. XML “Toys and Playthings”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Toys and Playthings

    Share Share Post
    My brother William Cahill of Craughatoosane, Listowel made a tambourine out of a goat's skin. This is the way he made it. He got the skin of a goat and put it down the glaise for about sil six weeks and he put a grain of lime on it the way there would not be smell and he put a grain of salt in it the way it would not rot. Then he got the rim of a screen and put the skin on and pulled it well and then got 2d worth of brass tacks and put them on it and then got the covers off of polish boxes and flattened them out and then made holes in the rim. Then he got the tongs and reddened it and put it into the holes and made them nice and long. Then he rubbed a small piece of resin to it and it made it very hard. Then he put it up and let it dry. Then he put wires along the back of it to make
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Cahill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Curraghatoosane, Co. Kerry