School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)The rubber used to be put on the gabhlóg and the leather on the end of it.
- Long ago the people used to make guns in the following way:- A hole is made in the middle of a branch of an elder tree, and got an other stick, and made a handle in the stick, and made the stick fit right in the gun. It would fire stones by shoving the stick in the hole of the branch.
Many boys make snares for catching hares and rabbits. They also make bird-baskets for catching birds in the Winter. Catapults are made in the following way:- Two pieces of leather are attached to the two branches of a gabhlóg, and then two pieces of rubber are attached to(continues on next page) - Collector
- Neil Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Nora Levis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
