School: Carrigeencor (roll number 10826)
- Location:
- Carrigeencor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Annie Gillmor
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- (continued from previous page)a stocking and fill them with saw dust and sew them to the body. Then make clothes to fit it.
- Get about twenty four rushes, and bend down the top of the rushes, and tie them with a string. Then get a long rush, and roll it down the whip then get another rush, and do the same. When you have all rolled, tie a piece of string on it for a lash.
- To make this you get four fairly strong sticks generally of hazel or willow. You make a square(continues on next page)
