School: Kilskeer (C.) (roll number 1563)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhithcheallaigh
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- 8. On Shrove Tuesday we have pancakes. We have great fun to see who would get the ring that is put in them.
9. The amusements I have around the fireside are, listening to some old person telling stories or listening to someone singing songs or looking at them playing cards.
- Collector
- Bridie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnsbrook, Co. Meath
- 10. People used to catch birds by sticking a bush in a field where there were black-heads because it was there the birds used to resort mostly. They used to put bird-lime on the twigs of the bush and they used also put some birds in a cage to attract the other birds with their songs. When the birds outside used to hear the cage-birds singing they would fly to this bush and sing on it along with cage-birds. When they would try to go they could not because they were fastened(continues on next page)
