School: Mercy Convent, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Clement
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- Girls toys.
In Summer-time the girls gather daisies and pull the heads off them and put them on a string and they have a daisy chain made.Conquers.
The boys bore a hole in a chestnut and put a string through it and they call the game they play Conquers. The boys about here still make them.Catapults.
Get a piece of a tree like a fork. They call it the fork. They also get two pieces of rubber the same size and tie the rubber on to the fork and they have a catapult made. The boys about here still make them.- Collector
- Pauline Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymulvey, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Kearns
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymulvey, Co. Longford