School: Caime (roll number 11380)
- Location:
- Caim, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Liam Ó Reagáin
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Home made toy
Children made daisy chains and hung them round their necks.
Cowslips made into balls was another childish play
Elder tree branches made grand pop guns.
Wheat or oat stalk made whistles with the aid of a pen knife.
Children used to make dolls out of rags, and their fathers and mothers used to make them dolls out of sticks.
Catapults are made from a piece of leather and a bit rubber string. Bows and arrows made from the yew bough.
Birds were made from potatoes with a feather or two for the tail and sticks for legs were made.
Dolls houses and baby houses were made from attractive bits of china or delph.
Gooseberries with thorns for legs and arms. A "booraun" is a sieve but with skin bottom and used for making bread in. A booraun placed side ways on a piece of stick catches birds in snowy weather.Eleanor O'Connor. Caim N.S. Enniscorthy
Given by her grandmother
Mrs Hibbett residing at Kiltrea Ho. Enniscorthy
- Collector
- Eleanor O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltrea, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Hibbett
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltrea, Co. Wexford
