School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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- (continued from previous page)make dolls from cloth and fibre, and put teeth made from turnips in them. Boys made snares for catching birds from hair, and when it would be snowing they'd set it for them. They'd also make tops from sticks and a cord tied around them.
- Long ago my father used to make wooden men that could dance on a board. He made a banshee from a box and roesin. He made a hole on the box and put a cord with roesin on it through the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Gargan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullyattin, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Gargan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyattin, Co. Meath