School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 111
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- Boys around here used to make catapults for killing birds. A catapult is a forked stick with an elastic band for throwing stones.
Girls string daisies together into a chain, and they trace three rushes together to make a belt. They also make rush hats and decorate them with wild flowers, and they make belts with toffee-papers and cigarette papers. When binding corm both boys and girls make whistles out of cornblades, and at Christmas time they make necklaces out of holly berries. They also make necklaces out of sgeachóirí (sgeachóirí are red wild berries that come on the wild rose.)
- Collector
- Hannah Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Patrick Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
