School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Duncormick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Home Made Toys. 28- 3 -'38.
Mammie used to make dolls
She made them out of pasteboard.
She used to cut two pieces of it, and join them together, with pins, taken from the middle of a copy.
The head was made by putting hay inside of a rag and stitching the rag up in the form of a ball.
Then she would dye some sheep's wool yellow and stitch it to the top of the head, to make it look like hair. She would then stitch the head to the body.
Bridget Stafford, Gurtins used to make chains of dog-berries.
Daddie used to make guns out of a piece of a sally tree. These would fire pelets a distance of 20 or 30 yds.Bridie Codd,
Belgrove,
Duncormick.
- Collector
- Bridie Codd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellgrove, Co. Wexford
- Home-made Toys.My mother used to make dolls.
She used to get a rag and fill it with hay or straw chips.
She would paint the face with coloured pencils and stitch glass buttons on it for eyes.(continues on next page)
