School: Drumconrath (C.) (roll number 16144)
- Location:
- Drumcondra, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Úna Ní Chongbhaile
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- I often made toys at home such as daisy chains. They are made mostly in Summer because then daisies are very plentiful. We get a long straw and put the heads of the daisies in on it, one after another. Sometimes we make a doll. We get an old piece of a rag and make it into the shape of a doll, then we stuff it with hay and sew it up. Then we make her eyes, her mouth and her nose with a pencil or coloured ink.
- The old people used to make baskets of rushes, in making them they would plait the rushes in and out through each other until the basket would be shaped.
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- Informant
- Mr P. Saul
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Drumcondra, Co. Meath
