School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carraig Gormáin, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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- (continued from previous page)five small pieces and put four outside and one in the middle, the one in the middle is ten and the four outside ones are fives, you peg at these small ones and try to knock as many as you can.
- "Bird catching" is well known to the boys of this district, a large sieve is got and propped up by a piece of stick, then a long piece of strong twine is fastened to the stick, and corn scattered under the sieve, then the person catches the string in his hand and hides it at a safe distance from which he can see the sieve, then a bird will presently come and feed on the corn, the boy will then pull the string and capture the bird.
- Collector
- Emrys Roundtree
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carraig Gormáin, Co. an Chabháin