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School: Darver (C.), Dundalk (roll number 10547)

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Darver, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Mhuireagain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 072

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    I do not know of any toys having been made at home of late, but the old people say when they were young they made toys out of clay, and a man's face out of a turnip.
    They made also a pot gun out of elder.
    They made the man's face out of a turnip in this way, first of all the scooped out the turnip except the skin.
    They made a nose, mouth, eyes, and put a lighted candle in the mouth. Then they leave it in the ditch to frighten people at night pretending it was a ghost.
    I do not know how the pot gun was made.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Bhearáin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Lear
    Gender
    Male