School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 247
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alder to form a square.
After this we get two long pieces of binder twine and tie an end on each corner.
Then we build up the crib in a slope by putting hazel or sally rods across each other so that one little stick makes a top for it.
When we have it finished we tighten it by twisting the two bits of twine at the top of the crib.
Next (we) get a "pan." that is a briar, and put it in at the two corners at one end of the crib. Then we get a forked stick and a t(h)in piece of sally to set it.
We catch blackbirds, robins, wrens, and many other birds. The forked stick is called a gowel-yoke and the thin stick is called a tricker.
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Bird-Crib
Method of Setting
Trigger
"Pan"
Bird hops on this and displaces trigger causing crib to fall(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Owen Bennett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
