School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 220
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- a top: Long ago the old people used make toys for their children. The most common one is the top. It is made out of a spool. One end of it is paired, a piece of a stick is put through the hole for a point. Another kind of top is called a teetum tootum. It is made of a spool. It is not as big as the ordinary top, a whip is not used but it is spun with the hand. There are four colours and fours letters on it. The letters are A.T.N.T.P.
a is for all
n is for none
t. take up
p. put down
There was money to be won by it.
[Sheila Boland (13) from father Daniel (59) wood of O, Tullamore]
- Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Daniel Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- a slinger: The way the children make a slinger is, they get a piece of leather and they put a hole in each end of it. Then tey get two pieces of twine. They tier one of the pieces of twine in one hole and the other in the(continues on next page)
