School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 402
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- (continued from previous page)Girls make daisy chains for necklaces and some girls wore them on their necks. The girls go out to the fields and get different sorts of flowers and plat them together.
- Up to this day children make homemade toys. The girls make necklaces from flowers. They also make rag dolls. The boys make tops from spools, kites from umbrellas, guns from eldars, boats from eldar and caterpults from forked branches of trees and elastic. They also make bird traps with a dish a stick and a cord. They make snares for rabits and hares with cord snare wire and stick. They also make lamps from turnips.
Long ago the children made roses from potatoes. They pared the potatoe until it was the shape of a rose. These were called artifical roses.
This is how children make(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Peter Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth
