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School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)

Location:
Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
Teacher:
S. Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 238

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    Girls make daisy chains as their mothers and grandmothers did. They gather daisies, and make a hole with their nails on the stem, and stick another stem out on the hole.
    Children often make tops from spools. They pare the spool at one end and then put a pointed stick out on the hole. They are able to spin then
    Long ago children used to make their own balls. They used to get a withered turnip and put a cloth around it and kick it for a football.
    Long ago the only way the people had for catching water birds was a little trap called "slouckeen". It was made of horse-hair and sticks. The sticks were put standing in a stream and the horse-hair looped on them. When the bird stood on a
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lily Killian
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Formoyle (Farrell), Co. Longford
    Informant
    Luke Killian
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Formoyle (Farrell), Co. Longford