School: Rathmore, Tullow

Location:
Rathmore, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chonchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 082

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 082

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  1. XML School: Rathmore, Tullow
  2. XML Page 082
  3. XML “Bird-Lore”
  4. XML “Homemade Toys”
  5. XML “The Lore of Certain Days”
  6. XML “Travelling Folk”

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  1. Every girl makes necklaces out of flowers and dolls out of paste board. Boys make yeo-yeos out of paper and rags. They also make birds cages out of wood and wire. Snairs are made for catching hares and rabbits and young foxes. They make fishingrods for catching fish.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gretta Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Straboe, Co. Carlow
  2. The luckiest day to get married is on Wendesday. The most unlucky day to get married is saturday. Men start to work on a Monday. The people sow the potatoes before the 17th of March. All the crops are up in May. The cabbage and carrots and parsnips are left until later Tuesday and Friday are for curing jaundice and evils.
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  3. Travelling people still call to our home. People used to go about many years ago. Some of them are poor. They sell cans, tabels, artificial flowers, baskets, necklaces, cups, saucers and many other
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