School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Long ago and at the present time children were very much skilled in making toys of different kind[Drawing] - Daisy chain when completedMost of the girls' time is given to making long yellow daisy chains. At first they go out to a green fertile field and gather a bunch of yellow and white coloured daisies. They make a little split in one of the stems and put another stem out through the split. A split is put in that stem then, and another daisy is put out in it. This continues until the chain is long enough.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr Edward Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny