School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 15_030
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- The children long ago used make hats of rushes. This is the way they used make them. First they used get five long rushes to make the band. Then they got long rushes and wove them round the band attaching them to the others until they came to the end. Then they were all tied together on the top to finish the hat.
They used also make dolls out of potatoes. They cut out the doll's face on the potatoe. Then they got four sticks, two to make the hands and the others to make the legs of the doll. This custom is in our district yet.
They also string daisies together. You put a hole in the end of the stem with your nail and then you would put in the stem of another daisy through the hole and then pull. You would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Dhuilleáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ennismore, Co. Kerry
