School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- The sling is a very common toy and this is how it is made. A piece of leather about five inches long and four inches wide is got and a string is put into each end. This sling an throw a stone about a quarter of a mile, or kill a bird flying through the air.
- Now and again many kinds of travellers visit our district. The most popular are the tinkers and the gypsies. The tinkers settle down near a bog so that they have plenty of turf. They earn their living by making cans and saucepans and by selling them to the country-people and on this account they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bartly Queenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Battle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo