School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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- (continued from previous page)Then I made eight little dulls from horse hair and tied them up over the cord. Then I shook sperry round the place. The birds always lit on the cord and got caught in the dulls. I also made a plug gun. I got a stick about as thick as the pump of a bicycle and a half foot long from a boortree and made a hole up the middle of it with a red iron. Then I made what is called the ramrod. I got another piece of wood and pared it until it fitted the hole exactly. I filled one end with paper or flax and then blew into it and filled the other end. Then I knocked them out with the ramrod and it make a shot.
The old people used to make bows and arrows. They first got a thick stick about two foot long and made a trough in it. Then at one end, they make a hole through it and at the other end make a deep nick. They put a thin scaly rod through the hole and tie a cord to each end of the hole and catch it in the nick. Then they put a piece of a stick in the trough and let go the cord out of the nick and it would send the stick ten(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brian Mc Cann
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killatee, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Brian Mc Cann
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killatee, Co. Cavan