Homemade Toys
In my grand-father's time they used to make wooden spoons for Easter Sunday out of wood. The boys used to make toas out of doab which they got in wet land. It had a brown colour. They used to wet the doab and shape it into toas. Then they used to leave it to dry and it got very hard and they used to play them. We do not make any of these things now.
“Informant: Patrick Reilly, Prison North, Co. Mayo”
The marriage of my uncle and aunt took place a year ago in the parish of Balla, in the month of April. They had 4 motorcars and thirty of the nearest relations with them.
INFORMANT: Mrs Ruane, Age 50, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo