School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis

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1. Homemade Toys (continued)

   

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   it forms into a basket of bee hive shape or like a butter box.
   In frosty weather or snowy weather and put this in the middle of a field and go in hiding. It is raised on a bit of a stick and there is a string from it long enough to reach to the hiding place. When the boy sees a bird go in he pulls the string and lets the cradle bird and the bird is trapped.
   Those toys are still made by little boys, and little girls, in their spare time. There is a man in the Turnpike by the name of Bob Gormaley, who makes toy horses and cars and doll houses.

   

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. toys (~1,598)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Vera Keavy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Turnpike Road, Co. Clare