Abstract: Story collected by Lena Meehan, a student at Shanakill, Roscrea school (Shanakill, Co. Tipperary) from informant Mr Meehan.
Original reference: 0547/2/43
School Shanakill, Roscrea [Vol. 0547, Chapter 0002]
County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Tipperary Schools
Homemade Toys [duchas:4859127]
The boys got a piece of leather and two cords and tied them together. They put a stone on the piece of leather then. They swung the cords and the leather. Then they let one of the cords go and the stone would fly a long distance. The boys used get a big turnip and cut out the shape of a man's face on it. They would scoop out the turnip and put a lighted candle inside in it. If they knew of any person around the district was afraid in the night they put it where he'd be going in to his own house. They got a post and put the turnip on top of it and put a white sheet around the post and put it in near the ditch. They called it a ghost. The boys and girls used get the back of a writing book and roll each side of it up and split half the middle of the back and doubled it back together and rub it with their hand and it would make noise. Cribs were made of sally rods and alders. The way they made them was to make a frame with four sticks and tie the four corners with sally rods and build it up with
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alders. Snares used to be made of snare-wire. The way they used make was to get 6 threads of snare-wire and loop it in a pot-lid and twist the pot-lid around an it would plait the wire and tie a piece of strong twine to the snare and tie the other end of the twine to a peg to hold it in the ground. Lore of certain days It is said that the luckiest day to move to a new house is on Friday, but to get married on Friday is considered unlucky. In my district anyone who is getting married does so on Wednesday. It is said if you set eggs on a Sunday no chickens will come out of them. The first seventeen days of April are called the "Riacr"days. They tried to skin the old cow in March and they had to borrow seventeen days from April to finish skinning her. Some say the eight, for the ninth more
Original reference: 0547/2/43
Homemade Toys
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