School: Gortnasilla (roll number 15133)
- Location:
- Gortnasillagh East, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Loughlin
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- 1. Every boy and many girls find amusement in spare time in making toys.
2. Girls love to make daisy chains, rag dolls' and dolls' dresses.
3. Daisy chains are made by putting a split in the stem of the daisy and another daisy is pulled through it and so on until the chain is long enough.
4. A rag doll is made by filling a cloth of rags and sewing it up in the shape of a body.
5. The head, hands and feet are made of card-board. The mouth, eyes, ears and nose are marked with paint.
6.Then the clothes are made and put on and the it was finished.- Collector
- Philomena M. Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letter, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Letter, Co. Leitrim