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School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)

Location:
Killure Beg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0050

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    The boys in this district make snares for hares and rabbits from snare wire. When the snare is made they tie it to a thick stick and drive the stick into the ground so that the snare cannot be brought away with the hare.
    They make a dancing master and a daddy long legs from very short pieces of timber.
    They make pop-guns from a piece of elder stick and a potato. They take the inside from the stick and put in a piece of a potato. Then they put a runner through the stick and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Grady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilcloony, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John Grady
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcloony, Co. Galway