School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)made from timber by rounding a piece of hazel with a knife and putting a nail through it.
Hurleys can be made from seasoned ash which is left for about a month to get hardened, then pare it with an axe. It can be smoothened with a plane or with glass.
Rabbits can be easily caught with snares which are made with copper wire. Get six strands of wire each about 18 inches long. Fix them on a nail and twist the wire to keep them firm, leave a loop at both ends of the wire strands when twisted. Put one loop through the other. Fasten a peg to the other end. When setting the snare stick this peg into the ground.
A man's face can be made from a turnip. A face is carved out in the turnip, with holes cut out for eyes and for a mouth, a candle is put into the turnip(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Wolfe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagraigue, Co. Cork
