School: Ballinacliffy
- Location:
- Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 159
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- (continued from previous page)also make them in another way by leaving on the stems, making a hole in one and putting the other through it.
- Boys make bows for catching plovers. You get a sally and make it into the shape of a harl and put a split in the end of the sally. When the plover hops on the bow the sally will hit her on the back of the neck and kill her
- Girls make cowslip balls by pulling them with long stems. You turn the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elsie Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Coolaleena, Co. Westmeath
