School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 480
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- Children made guns from elder sticks, by taking out the middle and pressing in a bit of paper half wat then put in another bit of paper. Then press with a stick made for the use and from the pressure it would act like a bullet.. They used also make slings for shooting birds with two rubbers a stick and a piece of leather.
Others would make bird baskets for catching birds alive this was made with sally sticks tied together with twine and a twig tied underneath to make a bough, and the basket held up with a bit of stick and when the bird perches on the bough the weight of him knocks the cage and then he is caught.
- Collector
- Jospeh Keane
- Gender
- Male
