School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0598, Page 107
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- Get a piece of timber about 3 ins. cubic. Dress it to a point, and round the sloped surface. Cut grooves around it. Mak a spear of wire or nail. Cut off about an inch of pointed end of nail. Make a narrow hole at pointed end with a small gimlet or burn it in. Then drive nail. This would be a pegging top.
- Get a piece of elder. Clear out pith. Get a piece of rod almost as thick as the hole in elder, & slightly longer than elder. This is the ram-rod. Get a piece of paper. Chew well, and force with ram-rod thro the(continues on next page)
