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School: Beacán (C.)

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Bekan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 273

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    grain of oats in each loop, and the birds hop into the oats and get caught.
    They also made pop guns. At first they got an elder branch and scooped the inside out of it and they got a bit of a stick and this they fastened to the big stick with bits of rubber and they could fire pebbles with it.
    Very few of those toys are made nowadays, except snares, fishing rods, and guns, are made by the boys and the girls make daisychains. They are not needed because
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Finnegan
    Gender
    Female