School: Sailcheartáin (Sillahetane), Dúnmaonmhuighe
- Location:
- Sillahertane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íte Ní Chléirigh
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- Home Made Toys
I often heard how to make whistles. First you would get a piece of an elm sapling and keep hitting it with an iron until the bark would loosen, then you would take it off and cut a v shape in the stick, then put on the bark again and blow air into it and it would whistle. People in our district make those whistles to this day.
I often made a chestnut whistle, it is easy to make one. First you would get a chestnut and put a hole in it and scrape out all the inside and then blow through the hole. I often made a whistle out of the end of a blade of rye. I put a slit in it with a knife and blew into it and it would whistle, it is called a "jócawn".
Ina Deane
Pookeen
Drimoleague
Co. Cork
- Collector
- Ina Deana
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pookeen, Co. Cork
