School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 038
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- (continued from previous page)of the stalk. Then I would blow at one end and the berries or stones would shoot out of it at the other end.
- When I was young I often made a "pepper "Can whistle" I took the lid off of the can. I put a hole in the bottom of the can. I put a piece of a string in through the whole. I swong it around and it made a whistling noise.
- Collector
- Brighid Ní Bhraonáin
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Sighle Nic Aodha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fallaghmore, Co. Laois
- I often played with a toy made from a stone and a feather. I got a stone usually an angular one. I tied a piece of cord around the stone and left a piece(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donnchadh O Conaire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbally, Co. Laois
- Collector
- Sighle Nich Aodha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fallaghmore, Co. Laois
