School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)to spend the nights making dresses for the dolls.
- They used to make dolls from a big potato and cut the shape of the eyes, nose and mouth off it. They used to get a thick piece of a stick and make the shape of a body from it. They used to stick the head to the body, then the doll was finished.
They made handles of knives and forks from cows horns.- Collector
- Katie Ellen Kilcoyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnaglass, Co. Sligo