School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 265
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- Many boys and girls long ago made their own toys such as follows. Nice matches are required for making spinning tops out of spools by putting a nail through the spool and shaping it like a top.
Bow and arrow, of willow rod and twine.
Cradlebird - Elder sticks (20) willow rod cross wise (about 1) standing up on 1 stick y.
Catapult - sticks and rubber, and a bit of leather,
Lamp out of turnip, dolls out of turnip.
If you get a piece of stick and a piece of rope and tie the rope to the end of the stick you will have a whip. If you get a bunch of rushes and put one over the other you will have a rattler. If you get a spool and cut the two ends off, and put a little piece of stick in the middle, you will make a yo-yo.
Young children love making fancy toys such as dolls made out of straw and covered over with a nice little dress. Girls always make dolls, Boys make tops out of the top of a handle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Sloyan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
