School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Eoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 260
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Easgéiphtine (B.)
- XML Page 260
- XML “Homemade Toys”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)of a boot and attach it to one end of the wire. Then slip the other end of the wire through it, and put a strong cord into the wire. Then tie the cord to a stick and the snare is made.Pop-guns : - The way that pop-guns are made is by getting an elder stick and burning out the centre of it with a hot iron. Then get a stick that would go through the hole and put it into the hole. Then put a cork into the hole at the other end and push the stick through very fast and when it pushes out the cork it makes a loud noise.Whistlers : - The way that whistlers are made is by getting a short piece of elder and burning the centre out of it, leaving the bottom stopped. Then cut a gruve in it and put in a piece of timber as a tongue and the whistler is made
- Collector
- James Foely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Milltown North, Co. Limerick
