School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 363
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- XML Page 363
- XML “Doll-Making”
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)other pieces for the nose and mouth.
On each of the two sides two little pieces (for the nose and mouth) of stick were made for the arms, and on the lower side two little sticks were placed for the two legs. Then a dress was made for it, and that is the way the doll was made by the people. The people that made these dolls thought a whole lot of them because they used to put them on shelves for ornaments when any stranger was coming to the house.
(no title)
“The people used make spinning ginnies as toys out of spools for the children.”
Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.(no title)
“The dolls that were in my grandmothers days were a piece of cloth shaped like a doll and stuffed with hay and then sewed up.”
3. The dolls that were in my Grand-mother's days were a piece of cloth shaped like a doll and stuffed with hay, and then sewed up. Then mark its eyes, ears, nose.(continues on next page)