School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 164
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- I got this information from my father James Wilson of Walterstown and it is as follows:-
Necklaces - long ago the children used to amuse themselves by making necklaces. They used to make them from daisies and other flowers. they were made by putting a hole in one of the daisies and putting the stem into the hole in the other daisy.
Dolls - the girls used make their own dolls. They used stuff them with saw-dust. Girls used also knit on a reel on which three or four sprigs were driven. Various colours of threads were used according to the article it was intended for, usually mats.
Cabby Houses - The girls used to have and still have cabby houses in which they used to have a shop. They would get the useless things, that were in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Wilson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Walterstown, Co. Cork
