School: Cill Fhíonáin (B.) (roll number 15992)
- Location:
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 160
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- (continued from previous page)danger of punctuating it and one lasted a considerable time.
- A crib was made around this district for catching birds. It was made of elder sticks in the shape of a square. It was laid down on the ground with some food in t. It would be propped up with a prong wich was called the "gabhlóg", a little sally upon was put between the prongs which was called the "cauthín". A perch for the bird to alight on the wall called the bow-ow."
- Collector
- James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- William Sherwood
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Ballyriggin, Co. Limerick
- I years gone by in this locality the people used catch the wild geese. When they used set the traps they used spread a little straw over them so that when the geese would come to eat the seed of the straw they would not see the traps and they would be caught.
In this locality the people used to make snares out of copper wire for catching wild rabbits by which(continues on next page) - Collector
- Frank O Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moorestown, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Jack Coomey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Bosnetstown, Co. Limerick
