School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Cnoc na gCoileach, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 275
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- 'Tops'. 'tops' were made by dressing to a point a spool and putting a stick in it.
'Lamps'. 'lamps' were made by filling a bottle with oil and making a little tube of tin, for holding the wick.
'Heads' 'Heads' were made by cutting two holes in a turnip for the eyes, an oval shaped hole for the nose and a long hole for the mouth.
'Tun-dishes' were made by knocking the bottom out of a cocoa box, cutting it down the middle and narrowing it in at one end.
'Horns' were made by knocking the bottom out of a castor-oil bottle and blowing into it.
'Pop-guns' were made by pushing the soft stuff out of an elder-branch, putting a cork in the end of it and pushing it out with a rod.
'Fishing-rods' were made with a long stick, a piece of cord, attached to the rod(continues on next page) - Collector
- Owen Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Katie Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Dromainn Bhán, Co. an Chabháin
