1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler

School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)

Location:
Towlerton, Co. Laois
Teacher:
L. Ó Broin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 140

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 140

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler
  2. XML Page 140
  3. 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

  1. Homemade Toys (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    of card - board big enough to hold an acorn cup. Fit one acorn cup in each hole, put a number at the bottom of each hole. Get your marbles, stand a few feet away and throw the marbles into the holes and the person who gets the highest number wins the game.
    To make a maybush you need one hawthorn bush and some flowers and some egg - shells and some coloured paper. Plant the bush in the ground. Colour the eggshells and stick them on the bush. Hang a bunch of flowers and a piece of coloured paper on with each egg - shell.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gwen Atkinson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Monavea, Co. Laois
    Informant
    John Atkinson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Monavea, Co. Laois