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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- In years gone by, the young boys made hurling balls from the hair of the cow.
In the spring time, when the hair falls off the cow, they used collect it. To make the ball, take a good fist full of the hair, place it between the two hands, and keep twisting it round and round, with a light pressure.
It takes much twisting and turning, but after a time, the hair will be all stuck together and quite firm. It will not ravel again.
- 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.
