School: Tón Ruadh (roll number 12809)
- Location:
- Tonroe, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Giobaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 79
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- (continued from previous page)body for an imitation of a head. After that I got a black ink and I painted two eyes, a mouth and a nose on the cloth. When I had finished I made a lovely dress for it and for a long time I was very proud of my home-made doll.
At another period of my childhood I made a necklace. One day when my mother was busy I stole away from her. I wandered away until I reached a large field which was covered with various coloured wild flowers. I picked a large number of them and I went home. When I went home I got a needle. Then I took each flower, the flowers separately and I bored a hole through their stems. After I had that finished I got a piece of thread and I put it through every hole which I put in the stems of the flowers. I continued this until I had finished. Then I put it on my neck and wore it with great delight.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Searraigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballintadder, Co. Mayo
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Bhreithimh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonnagh, Co. Mayo
