School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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- Pick up a bullrush and cut the leaves, leaving four, cutting two short ones for the arms and the longer two for the legs. The end of the bullrush makes the head.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Fráthaile
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- We also made a doll this way. We get a piece of a cloth and roll a few sops of hay into a small ball and put it into the centre of cloth. This makes doll's head by tying cord round cloth containing hay ball. The two of the corners would make the hands by tying cord round under shoulders. Lastly two remaining corners are tied in such a way as to(continues on next page)
