School: Ballymore (roll number 16569)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Sibéal Nic Eimhin
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- 21225-2-38Home made toys
These are some of the toys made by boys at home : tops, The tops are made from a spoolie pared into a point at one end with a bit of a stick run through it.
Buzzers are made from the lid of a polish box and it is cut into little teeth around the outside and two holes put in the middle of it and a cord run through the holes.
Propellors are made from a bit of a stick with both ends pared off it and a hole bored through the middle of it and a nail driven through the hole into the top of a pole.
The leaping doll is made from a ball-bearing wrapped up in silver paper.
Waterwheels are made from two boards sawed out round with a fret-saw, and a couple of bits of sticks put between the two round boards and an axle run through it and then it is put in a stream where there is a fall coming down on it.Joe Rothwell (13)
Ballyregan,
Ferns, Co. Wexford
- Collector
- Joe Rothwell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyregan, Co. Wexford
