School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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- 1. A toy gun is made of an elder branch that is hollow in the middle. A piece of a motor tube is placed in the double over one end and tied with a piece of weak wire near the other end. A straight piece of a stick is pulled through the elder until it meets the rubber, then the rubber and the stick are held in one hand and the elder in the other. Then the rubber is strained and and when it is left go it strikes the stick. It will go straight through the elder.
A spinning top is made out of a tread spool by making one end in a point and pluging that end with a piece of steel.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eamonn Bairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Finuge, Co. Kerry