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School: Killesk

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Killesk, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Margt. Sutton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 049

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 049

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    Girls make chains out of daisies by putting a hole in one end of each daisy and put the end of each daisy in the hole and so on until a long chain is made.
    Boys make toy pop-guns with a piece of an elder tree, and take off the skin off it, and get a long stick for a ram-rod and they use this for throwing paper bullets. Boys can make tops called Teetotums with a reel. Put four sides on it and a sharp top on it to spin and put letters on each side and you could play a game with it.
    Girls made yeo-yeos with to large buttons and sew them together, and put a long thread out of it, and then the yeo-yeo is made.
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    Boys can make rattle boxes from rushes. These are made by plaiting the rushes together in the form of a box, then a stone is put into it to make it rattle.
    Men's faces can be cut from turnips, but
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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
    Nellie O Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr O Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockea, Co. Wexford