School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 429
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- I often make home made toys. One of the toys I made at home was a whistle. I first got an ash stick and bored a hole in it with a thin piece of wire and I cut a little hole in the top of it and it was made.
I also made a catapult. The way I made it was I got a stick in the shape of a fork and two pieces of rubber and a thin piece of leather. I tied the two pieces of rubber on to the two ends of the stick. Then I got a scissors and bored two holes in the leather and put the rubber through them and tied both of them on the other side with cords.
I also made a sling first I got an old tongue out of a boot and cut two holes on each end of it and I got two pieces of cord about a yard long and I put them through(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
