School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 229
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- Flowers:-
The old habit of stringing daisies, primroses, and butter-cups still remain in this locality. It was a great amusement in former days for little girls to make "miuncí" and "dealga" but this habit is now dying out.
………………………….. Guns from elder branches:-
A great pastime for boys about sixty years ago was the making of guns from elder branches. Their manufacture was simple. An elder branch was first cut the required length and an iron was driven through the branch to expect the bait. Then the hole was stuffed with sugar papers which were at first damped and a stick was pushed in then, then another sugar paper was put in, and a stick the thickness of the hole was pushed in half-ways. At the other end the finger was placed, and when let go, the paper made a loud charge. The paper was used instead of powder.
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Bird Baskets:-
These baskets were made out of spars of "Salach[?]" having four sides and coming to a point(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr J. Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
