School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)
- Location:
- Garbally, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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- (continued from previous page)a hedge. They gather pieces of boards for shelves, tins of various kinds to represent "groceries", sods of turf for "loaves", a piece of board across a stone in see-saw fashion to represent a weighing scale, etc. One girls is "shop-keeper", the others are "customers", etc
- TopsTops are made by the boys from old spools. One end is whittled down with a knife until it is pear-shaped. A short pointed stick is pushed through the hole in the spool and the top is made to spin by finger and thumb and kept spinning by using a whip made from hard cord.By: Michael Costello 13
Ballinamona, Menlough- Collector
- Michael Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballynamona, Co. Galway
- Made by girls from daisies. They bore a small hole in the stem of a daisy & push another stem through that hole. They pierce a hole in the second stem, & thread another daisy through it. The third & fourth & all the other stems are similarily pierced until the end. They then thread the last stem through the first and wear the chain as a necklace.
- Informant
- Kathleen Melody
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Gilkagh, Co. Galway