School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- An Baile Dubh, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhriaghail
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- (continued from previous page)and making a frame. Then twigs are placed around the frame by making a U shaped twig and putting it in the crib, this completes the crib.
When a bird would stand on the U-shaped twig the crib would fall over it making the bird a prisoner.
Another homemade toy is the snare. First of all four or five strands of light copper wire are got. Then all the strands are twister together. Then a loop is made in the wire then a strong piece of a stick is got and placed in the grounds and one end of the wire is fastened to it. This snare is placed before a rabbit burrow and when the rabbit comes from the hole it puts its head through the loop the wire closing around the neck and choking it.
- Collector
- Helen Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Baldwin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- An Baile Dubh, Co. Phort Láirge
