School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 239
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro
- XML Page 239
- XML “Homemade Toys”
- XML “Homemade Toys”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - I saw a boy making a sling or a gun. He got a piece of leather and two pieces of twine each about a yard long. He cut two holes in the leather and put the twines through the hole and held them with knots. He tied the twines to a stick and it is like a gun and you could shoot a stone with it.
I often saw a snare made to trap hares or rabbits from snare wire. Tie a twine from the wire to a piece of stick. When the hare or rabbit goes into it he pulls the wire and he tightens the wire round his neck.
Long ago wren boys used to cut a turnip in the shape of a wren on St. Stephen's day. They used to stick feathers out of the turnip and it would be like a wren.
