School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)in a family can cure ringworm if a worm is put in the child's hand after birth and held in it until the worm dies.
- Children used to make home-made toys long ago. My brother James Donlon made a bullet gun out of a bit of elder rod when hollowed or bored. He got a bit of hazel stick which fitted this hole. He got a piece of wet paper rolled up tight and put in one end of the hole so as not to let out the air. He shoved the hazel stick through, keeping the air before it. When the air was tightened up it shot out the paper before it.
He made a kite once out of a thin stick bent round with strong paper sewed on it and a long cord tied to the stick.
I often made a daisy chain, put the stem of a second daisy through this hole. Did the same until the chain was made.- Collector
- Nancy Donlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Aghaloughan, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs P. Donlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Aghaloughan, Co. Longford