School: Poll an Chapaill, Mullinahone (roll number 14181)
- Location:
- Poulacapple West, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó h-Icidhe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 184
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Poll an Chapaill, Mullinahone
- XML Page 184
- XML “Crib-Making”
- XML “Homemade Toys”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A crib is a very useful thing because you can catch any class of small birds in a
How to make a crib is to get a four big sticks and mail them together and then put twine across them. Then get a lot of nice hazels and build them on top of each other. When it comes to a top a little stick has to be got for it.
Then a bellyband and a gabhlog has to be got and also a stick to keep up the crib. When the bird would tip the belly-band and the crib would fall down and she couldn't get out. There are two kinds of cribs, the flat and pointed cribs.
- These are some of the toys that I make in my spare time I make necklaces out daisies. This is the way they are made. First you would get a rush and put a hole in the daisies. You would keep putting them on until the rush would be full. Then it can be worn as a necklace.
This is another game that boys place in their spare time. First they would get a mangel and(continues on next page)
