School: St Oran's, Buncrana

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1. Local Roads (continued)

   

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   There is a mass in the Sleadrin district called the mass pad and it is a good road in olden times. It was the way the people went to the mass rock.

   

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2. Bird-Lore

   

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   The names of the birds in our district are the robin the blackbird the wren the thrush the swallow the whingraze the [?] a gulls the sparrow the cuckoo the owl the lark the canary the nightingale the magpie and the crow The robin build its nest in a hole in the ditch. The blackbird its nest in the bottom of a whin bush. The wren builds its nest in the roof of a thatched house. The thrush builds in the middle of a hawthorn bush. The swallow builds high up in a tree. The whingraze build in a whin. The sparrow builds in a hedge. The owl builds its nest in a hole in the wall. The [?] builds in a rush bush and the nightingale builds in a ditch. The blackbird has a yellow bill because she builds her nest in a whin bush and the bush is yellow. The thrush

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Baldrick

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   79

   Address

   Ballynarry, Co. Donegal