School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

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   girl out of a book and stick it on for the head. Long ago slingers used be used for pelting stones. They were made with a piece of leather and two pieces of strings tied out of it and a stone was put in the middle.

   

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2. Homemade Toys

   

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   The toys I make for pastime are a doll, the way I make it is to get a small piece of coloured paper and fold it and then make the hands on it and make the face with a piece of white paper and traw out the face on it with a pencil. Old people can give an account of what they made when younf. An article they made was a pop gun. The way they made it was to get a thick clear bush and take out the pith of it and a ram rod to shoot out the shot.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. toys (~1,598)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Troy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drom, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Tobias Troy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drom, Co. Tipperary