School: Grange (roll number 3759)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 150
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Grange
- XML Page 150
- XML “Homemade Toys”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Home made toys
The boys of this locality are able to make some toys which include "bird cradles", water guns, bows-and-arrows, slings and catapults.
"Birds cradles" are used for catching birds and they are made from pieces of sticks of wood and rods. The frame is made with four sticks each about fifteen ins. in length.
Four sally rods are turned around the corners of the frame , turned upwards and tied together at a height of fifteen to twenty ins. from the ground. There are a number of other straight rods passed between these corner rods to close up the sides of the "cradle".
The ends of a long bowed sally rod are then attached to the two ends of the frame on the under side.This bowed rod together with two shorter rods(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr Michael Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Streedagh, Co. Sligo
