School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 399
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- (continued from previous page)Girls used to make doll's for the little girls, and the boys used to make top's for the smaller boys. The girls used to make necklaces. The boys used to make guns from elder branches, and cribs for birds out of scollaps, and snares for rabbits and hares, out of narrow wire.
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- Collector
- Mary Younge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs P. Corbett
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- In the days long ago the people used to make bugles out of straws. They used to get a piece of straw and cut a tongue in it and then blow into it.The girls used to make chains for their necks with daisies. They used to get one daisy and cut a hole in it and put another into it and the same way the whole time.(continues on next page)
