School: Cluain Fraoich
- Location:
- Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Fiachra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 359
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- The kind of toys made at home is a gun made from a bole tree. First of all there is a poker reddened in the fire and put through the boletree to burn a hole in it. Then there is a piece of tow put in each end of the boletree and shot out with a long stick. B. Hunt
- Collector
- Brid Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
- The kind of toy I make best are models out of candlegrease. First the candle is put into an old saucepan and left boiling until it is like water. Then it is left up until it is in soft candlegrease. It can then be made into any animal or bird. The thing I can make best is a cat.
