School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)be made out of thread spools, by getting a thread spool, and pearing it, and putting a nail in the end of it for a spear, then the top is made.[Drawing] - TopPop-guns can be made from elder sticks, by getting an elder stick, and by taking all the soft part out of the middle of it, and getting a long thin rod which runs through the elder stick. One piece of paper has to be secured then, and wet well, and put in one of the ends of the elder stick.
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- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
