School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formaoil (Newcowen), Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
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- Girls make daisy chains as their mothers and grandmothers did. They gather daisies, and make a hole with their nails on the stem, and stick another stem out on the hole.
Children often make tops from spools. They pare the spool at one end and then put a pointed stick out on the hole. They are able to spin then
Long ago children used to make their own balls. They used to get a withered turnip and put a cloth around it and kick it for a football.
Long ago the only way the people had for catching water birds was a little trap called "slouckeen". It was made of horse-hair and sticks. The sticks were put standing in a stream and the horse-hair looped on them. When the bird stood on a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Lily Killian
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Formaoil (Farrell), Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Luke Killian
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Formaoil (Farrell), Co. an Longfoirt