School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 058
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- One day I made a doll out of cloth. This is the way made her. I got paper and made a ball of it and I put a cloth around it. That was her head. I made eyes and nose and mouth with black thread. Then I made her body with clothes and sewed it on to her head. I got two pieces of sticks and put a cloth around them and sewed it on to her body. These were her two hands. Then I got two more sticks and put another cloth around them and sewed them on to her body. These were her two legs. Then I made clothes for her and put them on her.
Another day I made pram for her. I got a box and broke it up. Then I got five pieces of it and I got a hammer and nails and nailed the five of them together in the shape of a box. I put two wheels on to the bottom of it and I put two long handles on it. Then I went driving it. Then I went driving it around the house with the doll inside in it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tom O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry
