School: Tisrara (C.) (roll number 14930)
- Location:
- Four Roads, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 446
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- Girls take a flower and put a hole in the middle of the stem and get another flower and put it into the hole made in the first and keep doing that until they have a chain made, and string the top and the end together.
Boys make snares with wire and bits of wood. They twist four or more wires together. They knot the two ends together. Then they get a bit of twine tie it to the bit of wood and add the wire to the twine. They go out to a burrow or run, and dig a hole about the size of the piece of wood and put down the wood in the hole and cover it up.
- Collector
- Annie Lawlor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tibarney, Co. Roscommon
