School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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- 1. The children long ago made all their own toys. They made rag-dolls from a piece of cloth which they sewed up and stuffed with straw or feathers. The made bracelets, by getting the berries from a rowan tree and sewing them together.
To make a toy-gun get a piece of wood from an Elder-berry tree, put a hole through the centre of it. Then get a stick and a piece of paper, put the paper into the hole which you have made and push it out with the stick. This will make a noise like a gun.- Collector
- Una Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Long ago children made toys from wood, rushes, paper, rags and various other things. To make a top pare a bit of one end of a spool, then get a small thin stick that will fit the hole of the spool, when the stick is fixed firmly, roll a cord(continues on next page)