School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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- (continued from previous page)or sawdust or bran. Coloured wool is got to mark the eyes nose and mouth and the doll is then dressed.
She is put in a card board box and drawn about with a cord fastened to the box. - Swing-Swong
Many a happy hour I spent at "Swing-Swong". There were two ropes tied from a branch of a tree and a plank tied in the middle. Then the children would sit into the seat in their turns and others would swing them saying this rhyme.
"Swing swing the day is long
The cuckoo and the swallow
The corncrake put out his beak
and bade them all good-morrow."(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gretta Sargent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farrow, Co. Westmeath