School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)they put straw and sticks on the irons and lit the fire. They left a hole in the roof for the smoke to go out.
- A pop-gun can be made from an elder stick. It could be made any time of the year. To make the gun get a thin piece of ash for a ram-rod. Then clean out the elder stick and put a cork in the top of the stick and put the ram-rod up in stick and give the ram-rod a dart. The cork flies out and lets a shot.A doll can be made by gettiing a piece of timber and making it round. Then get a pencil a pencil her eyes and nose. Then get another block for her body and two wooden legs and glue them together.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Cooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
