School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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- In my district small boys and girls generally make toys during their pastime.Some of the toys girls enjoy making are dolls made from rags and shavings. First they make they shape of a body with cloth and stuff it with rags. They then make a round lump from rags or shavings and cover it with nice white cloth. All they have to do then is paint two eyes a mouth and a nose in the face and their doll is completed.Boys find amusement in making toy guns from elder branches. They get a piece about twelve inches long and scoop it out from end to end and cut out a square about 4 inches from one side of it. They then get a piece on side of it. They then get a piece of steel and put the two ends into the 4 inch hole. Their gun is then completed.
- Collector
- Peggy Newton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John T. Newton
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
