School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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- Boys made tops from thread spools and from a piece of a stick such as an old handle of a spade or shovel. They cut a piece of the handle about two or three inches long. The piece of timber is about one and a half inches wide. They cut the timber with a knife until one end of it is about a quarter of an inch wide. Then they get a nail. They cut the head off the nail. Then it is reddened and it is driven in the top. The spike is left about a quarter of an inch out. That top is called a spinning top. There(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo