School: Kilcullen (B.)
- Location:
- Cill Chuillinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Broin
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- The best known toys made long ago are as follows - tops, clay dolls, Jack-knifes, balls and mostly simple things like that, while the more manly toys were - stilts, slings, catapults suckers, and kites.
We had a gardener who was clever in the manufacture. One day I asked him what he could make. He said that he used to make stilts suckers, kites, clay dolls, a "arrow" parachute. For his children at home.
I had often made a common parachute using my(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peadar O Díosca
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Halbhaí, Co. Chill Dara