School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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- (continued from previous page)notch, then broke half it off. They took off the skin to take out the piece of wood and put it back again. They made pup guns from elder sticks. They peeled the stick and took out the pith. The stick was then dried at the fire. They fitter a cork or a piece of a turnip in both ends. Then they got another stick and forced the cork through. The rush of air makes the cork shoot out and make a bang. They make pop guns from a tall weed. This weed is empty inside. They put elder berries in it and blew them out with their breath. They made snares from snare wire. They twisted a couple of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Harmon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J. Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Clerk-labourer
- Address
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
