School: Naomh Baoithin, Tullydish (roll number 3160)
- Location:
- Tullydush Upper, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal P. Ó Lochlainn
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- There are not many ways that I know of for boys or girls to make toys at home but some of them are as follows -
We girls during spring and summer gather small daisies and then larger ones called "Dog Daisies". A hole is made through the stem and a thread put through each hole and them pulled so that the daisies are drawn close up to each other and in this was we make a necklace.
Another way of making a necklace is to gather Rowan berries off the Rowan trees and put a needle through the centre of(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burnfoot, Co. Donegal