School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0077
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- To make a top a boy got a spool and pared one end of it and he put a nail up the centre of the spool and then the top was finished.
A boy could make a gun out of a boortree. It was called a bullet gun. The gun was about five inches in length. There was a hole up the centre of the gun. He used to put wet paper in each end of the gun and then he would put a stick called a ram-rod up the centre of the gun forcing the two pieces of paper out on one end of the gun and they would let a great shot.
Boys also made bows and arrows. They made the bow out of a stout stick and tied at each(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael J. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
