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School: Ballinacliffy

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Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
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A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 158

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  2. Homemade Toys

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    Girls make dolls out of rags with a potato for her head. You stuff the rags with hay and you put the potato into a piece of rag and stitch it on to the body. You make two long narrow strips and stuff them with hay. Then you sew them on to the body for arms. Girls also make daisy necklaces by putting them on to a traneen. They pull off the heads and put them on to the traneen. You can
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