School: Shanakill, Roscrea

Location:: Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 157

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Homemade Toys (continued)

“In olden times the boys used to make bugles out of straws...”

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Slings The boys got a piece of leather and two cords and tied them together. They put a stone on the piece of leather then. They swung the cords and the leather. Then they let one of the cords go and the stone would fly a long distance. Ghost The boys used get a big turnip and cut out the shape of a man's face on it. They would scoop out the turnip and put a lighted candle inside in it. If they knew of any person around the district was afraid in the night they put it where he'd be going in to his own house. They got a post and put the turnip on top of it and put a white sheet around the post and put it in near the ditch. They called it a ghost. Crackers The boys and girls used get the back of a writing book and roll each side of it up and split half the middle of the back and doubled it back together and rub it with their hand and it would make noise. Cribs were made of sally rods and alders. The way they made them was to make a frame with four sticks and tie the four corners with sally rods and build it up with
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Topics
1. activities
  social activities (~7)
  entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
  toys (~1,598)
Language

English
Collector
Lena Meehan
Gender

Female
Address

Shanakill, Co. Tipperary

Informant
Mr Meehan
Relation

Parent
Gender

Male
Address

Shanakill, Co. Tipperary

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