School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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- Long ago the children made their own toys. Their parents could not afford to leave out a shilling or a sixpence on toys, as money was scarce that time
When my mother was young, she made a necklace from roundberries (rowan). She first got a thread and holed every roundberry with a needle, and put thread in the needle and put every roundberry on the thread, and tied the ends of the threads together and it round her neck. - Long ago, the grown-up children used to catch birds in the winter time. They caught them in potato-baskets as they were called. This basket was made of sally rods, by a basket maker.
First this basket was put on one side, and a small stick was put under the other side, and a string was tied to the stick. Then a few crumbs were thrown under the basket, to coax the birds under the basket. A person would be holding the string, and he would pull it. Then the basket would fall flat on the ground, and the bird was caught under it.- Collector
- Kitty Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Druminiskin, Co. Meath