School: Lochán na mBan (roll number 7816)
- Location:
- Loughaunnaman, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conghaile
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- (continued from previous page)Home Made ToysAround this part of the country the people used to make their own toys. This has died away now. All the people buy their own toys in the shops. The poor people make them themselves.
The chief work of these children is making necklaces. First they pick a lot of daisies. Then they break the crown off the flower. Then they make a hole in the crown. They put a hundred of these daisies into the crown. Then they wear them around their necks. - Long ago in the penal days the Priests could not say mass in Ireland as they do now. They used to say it on the hill-sides, in the bogs and in houses.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughaunnaman, Co. Mayo