School: Glenculloo, Killoscully (roll number 11083)
- Location:
- Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Ogáin
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- Every boy and many girls find
amusement in spare time in making
toys. Girls often make necklaces from
Flowers. They make dolls from papers.
Boys delight in making tops from
thread spools, guns from elders, and
snares for catching hares and
rabbits.
Grown-ups make models from
turnips. They cut a man's head out
of a turnip and they put a candle
lighting inside. The man's head shines
out as if it was a human. That
was what the people used long ago
to frighten other people.
None of that work is carried
on now in our district. Snares and
guns, dolls necklaces are carried on
still.
A necklace is made of flowers
by putting the stem of one daisy into
the centre of another and continuing
that on until it is able to go around
your neck. The way to play thimble is:-
one child takes a piece of paper in(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Clifford
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary