School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)
- Location:
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 350
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- (continued from previous page)made like a loop.
When the dulls are made, a stick is got about a foot long and then four or five holes are made in the stick, and than a dull is placed in every hole and fastened at every end.
The stick is left flat on the ground beside some waterhole or beside a spring where it is rising. Two forked sticks are driven in to the ground over the end of a flat stick to keep it from moving.
When the snipes come to look for water insects and to drink water, they put their heads down through the loops and then they are hanged when the loop is tightened around their neck.
In the morning the owner of the dulls come round and collect the snipes and sells them at four pence each. The snipes is a very hard bird to shoot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Steele
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
