School: Gortnaskeagh (roll number 16321)
- Location:
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Anna Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0199, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)dolls from dab and they also get a handful of hemlock and put them on a string to make a necklace. Boys also buy dull wire to make dulls to catch rabbits and hares. They get a bit of a branch of ash and drive a nail through it and bore a hole in it. They cut a small piece out of the top of it and make a whistle. They get a turnip & paint the nose eyes and mouth like a person for the head of a dab man. All those toys are still being made. Those home made toys are easy to break.
- I play many games namely High "Windows," "Den," "Skipping," "Tig," "Lord Look," "Weigh the butter and sell the salt." Those are the games I play in the day time. At night in the house I play "Dallog" and cards. In summer the children play the most. I pick nuts and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Gilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawnymoyle, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
