School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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- Some girls make strings of flowers for necklaces, and boys make snares to catch rabbits and hares. Some boys trap wild birds. They trap wild ducks, and they make bird baskets to catch blackbirds, or thrushes, and other wild birds.
- Collector
- Paddy Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolagh More, Co. Cork
- Boys make snares for catching rabbits and hares and bird baskets for trapping birds. Girls used to make necklaces out of flowers and sceachóirí. They also make dolls by stringing flowers together. Catapults were made with a gabhlóg and rubber and leather.(continues on next page)