School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)
- Location:
- Brownsgrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó hAnnracháin
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- Most boys around this place are interested in football and hunting. But many are also interested in snaring rabbits and there is
hardly a boy in this parish who has not a collection of snares and traps.
A snare is made by first getting a roll of snare wire and a piece of a board about two feet long. At each end of this board a nail is put. The end of the roll of wire is tied on to one nail and the rest of it opened out and twisted round both nails six times. The wire is then taken out and where it was twisted round the second nail there will be a little hole or "eye". A round piece of a stick
is now got and put into this eye and a piece of a rope is put on the other end of the snare and a "peg" or piece of a stick is tied on to it.
Sixpence worth of snare wire and five yards of rope (one pennyworth) makes twenty-five snares.- Collector
- Mary Mc Gagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh (Browne), Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Gagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Beagh (Browne), Co. Galway