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School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)

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Gortaveha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 07_041

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    their necks or make a crown for their heads. They also made hats. They would pick a big heap of rushes and make plats of them and then sew them together and stick daisies through them.
    Then they would make a little house of stones and plaster it with mud. The roof they put on them were bits of cipins and the scrows and hay and then leaves, stones on it to keep the wind from taking it. Then they would go off looking for green knobs which fall off palm trees these they called cows sheep and cattle. They used make a little field cipens all around them and put the cows in to it then leave in a fist of hay to them. Playing jugs they would all
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Julia Corry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Thomas Corry
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Clare