School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inse Chloch, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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- (continued from previous page)making whips. First they get three long rushes and having them woven together like a whip they tie each end with a cord to prevent it from ripping. Boys also make guns from elder sticks. They cut a piece of elder about a foot in length and they take the centre out of it. Then they get another stick longer than the other, but it must go through it freely. They get a piece of paper and make it into hard lumps, and they use them as bullets.
- Boys also make whistles out of horse-chestnut by making a tiny hole in the nut and taking the inner substance out of it. Very often people got a swede and they take out the interior, and the skin remains. Then they put a lighted candle into it and a beautiful reddish glow would come from the swede.
Girls string daisies together and form a(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Sceachánach, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr J. Scully
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- An Sceachánach, Co. Chorcaí