School: Killesk
- Location:
- Coill Eisce, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Margt. Sutton
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- Girls make chains out of daisies by putting a hole in one end of each daisy and put the end of each daisy in the hole and so on until a long chain is made.
Boys make toy pop-guns with a piece of an elder tree, and take off the skin off it, and get a long stick for a ram-rod and they use this for throwing paper bullets. Boys can make tops called Teetotums with a reel. Put four sides on it and a sharp top on it to spin and put letters on each side and you could play a game with it.
Girls made yeo-yeos with to large buttons and sew them together, and put a long thread out of it, and then the yeo-yeo is made.
- Collector
- Kathleen Forristal
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Forristal
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chnocaigh, Co. Loch Garman
- Boys can make rattle boxes from rushes. These are made by plaiting the rushes together in the form of a box, then a stone is put into it to make it rattle.
Men's faces can be cut from turnips, but(continues on next page)
