School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 251
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- If Candlemas Day be bright an clear
We'll have two winters in one year.February puff and blow,
Fill the corners full of snow.On Candlemas Day throw half the Candle away.All the months of the year curse fair February.
- A pipe can be made from a spool. Knock off the "flange" from one end of it. Hollow out the centre with a pen knife. Make a hole for the handle near the bottom, & insert shank many a child a toy of this kind amused.
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Dolls can be made from rags or from remnants of woolDoll's houses and furniture from old matchboxes.
