School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 272
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- A lot of boys and girls amuse themselves greatly by making their own toys in their own homes.
The girls make daisy-chains, dolls, Teddy-bears and tops, while the boys make snares to catch hares and rabbits, cradle-birds to trap birds, and fishing-rods to catch trout and many other kinds of fish. The boys also make guns of of elder branches.
The daisy-chains are made by putting the daisies together, the dolls and teddy-bears are made out of cloth and the tops are made out of thread-spools.
The snares are made out of rabbit-wire and the cradle-birds are also made out of wire. To scare people very much on a dark night some people get a turnip and cut the inside out of it. Then they shape out two eyes a nose and a mouth. Then they get a lighted candle and put it inside the turnip so that it will show a clear light. This is set upon a stick and put alongside the road or in the top of the hedge.
- Collector
- Molly Mc Galligly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Legnahoory, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr James Mc Galligly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Legnahoory, Co. Donegal
