School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Baile Oscail, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- The way to make a ball is to get thirty corks and mash them up, get a thin bit of leather and put the corks in a bit of leather and sow it up tightly with a bit of waxend.
- The way to make a flute is with an elder stick make a hole through the stick then make a hole on the side then put a bit of paper on the end. The girls make chains out of dasies. The way to make a Tombreen is with a goat skin put the goat skin in the ground for nine days. Then join the skin to the rim of a siv and put bells inside the skin
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- Collector
- Daniel Dohenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Grianán, Co. Laoise
- Informant
- Denis Dohenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Grianán, Co. Laoise
