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School: Coillte Bó (roll number 15984)

Location:
Kiltybo, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Michael S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 419

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    Every boy and many girls find amusements in spare time in making toys. In this district girls string flowers together in a chain or girdle. They make these with wild-roses or daisises. They also make dolls and this is how they make them. They get old clothes and make them into the shape of a doll. Then they dress the doll nicely and fix her into a little box.
    When the girls are making necklaces they get daisies and pull the stems off them; then they run a thread through the centre of the daisies and make a necklace of them.
    Boys make tops from thread-spools. They cut the spool into the shape of a top and make it spin with a piece of cord. They make guns
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Agnes Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonlavis Lower, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Connell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonlavis Lower, Co. Mayo