School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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- The boys in olden times made bows and arrows from sally sticks which they shot birds with.
They made pipes out of horse-chestnuts and a piece of a stick, which they made a hole in to form the shank.
They made tops from spools, they cut one end of the spool and ran a pointed stick through it.
They made guns from branches of elderberry trees but they could not fire a shot out of them. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Emrys Roundtree
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Togher, Co. Cavan