School: Ballynacargy (B.) (roll number 1731)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Mac Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 477
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- The toys we have nowadays are made mostly with tin as compared with wood or metal. I can make a whistle with an elder stick by boring a hole downright through the stick. Then I get a semicircular piece of stick about one tenth of an inch and put it in the hole. Then cut a hole through the elder stick and the whistle was made.There was a man living in Tristernagh long ago named Paddy Ross who was a toy maker and a cooper. He made the toys with wood. He had [stecial?] tools for making the toys which he called 'toy tools.There was in Frewin a man named William Allen who was a toy maker and a cooper also. He made the toys with wood.(continues on next page)
