School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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- Get a tar barrel and put it beside a low wall or something low. Put a wet sack across the mouth of the barrel. Put it in a way so that if you touched it it would fall in.
Put some bread on the sack.
When the rats come to get the bread their weight will make the sack fall in.
- Collector
- John Tansey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballitore, Co. Kildare
- My Father. "John Kavanagh Ardellis Athy". Walked from Ardellis to Castledermot on every Thursday of the week for three months of the year. It is a about twenty miles from Ardellis to Castledermot. It is about ten years ago since he(continues on next page)
