School: Breac-chluain
- Location:
- Brackloon South, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)the woods also and pick magories and make a necklace of them, by putting them on, one by one, to a string and joining it by a knot at the back.
The boys make pop-guns, slings and whistles. The pop-gun is made by scooping the middle out of a twig, about six inches long. A stick is made to go through the hole. The pop gun is used for firing water.
The sling is made from the fork of a tree, and two pieces of rubber each half an inch wide, and a piece of leather an inch and a half wide and three inches long. The rubbers are joined to the forks by a piece of twine and the leather to the other ends by a piece of twine also. The stone is put in the leather and the fork is caught hold of. The rubber is then drawn and the stone is let fly.
- Collector
- Patricia Hannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Togher, Co. Mayo
