School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 201
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- XML “To Make a Ball with Cow's Hair”
- XML “Hair of Horse's Tail Turning into an Eel”
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- John Mc Auliffe
- Gender
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- Michael Sullivan
- Gender
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- Address
- Knockahorrea East, Co. Cork
- Pull the hair from a horse's tail, make a hole in a wet dyke or pool and put the hair into it. Have a look at it now and then. At the end of six weeks, there will be life in the hair, and you can see it and move about, like an eel.
