School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- (continued from previous page)eight inches. Now tie your thread at a point which will draw it flat against the air when you pull Take it to the playground on a breezy day. Get a tall lad to hold it up. Let loose about forty yards of thread. Sign to him to throw it up into the air.
- This is how to make a noise like an aeroplane. Get a piece of elastic about six inches long and half an inch wide off the tube of a motor car. Hold it in your hand along the height of a wall along the wind. Give it one twist and pull it as long a you can. The longer you pull it the louder the the noise.
- Collector
- Anthony Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathglass, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathglass, Co. Sligo
