School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 274
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- Carboard was cut into square pieces & paste made of flour & boiling water to paste white paper of the same size & shape on the bits of cardboard. When dry, they wrote the numbers on the cards.
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- Collector
- Patrick Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Cribs Patrick Noonan calls them. He describes the "setting" by bending a weak stick from two corners & putting it into a forked one. When the bird would land on the bent stick, the crib would fall on top of it.
- Girls gathered pieces of clothes & sewed one piece in the shape of a bag. This they stuffed with hay or rags. They made(continues on next page)
