School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 261
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- The way to make a ball is to get thirty corks and mash them up, get a thin bit of leather and put the corks in a bit of leather and sow it up tightly with a bit of waxend.
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- Collector
- Jerry Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- In olden days there was a lot of toys made the mad kits tin whistles and they made pot guns with a piece of an elder stick.
