School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)string in each side, and then you put a stone in the leather and you can hit anything you like.
- Some people nowadays make toys such as tops. That is, get a spool and cut one end off it and put a piece of a stick with a sharp point through the hole that is in the spool.
Slings are made. There is two kinds of slings. There is a sling made out of a stick. These is a split put through the top of a light stick. The stone is put in that split and is thrown. There is another sling made of a piece of leather and two pieces of string.
There are snares made for rabbits(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Peter Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
