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School: Oram (roll number 8496)

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Oram, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. McMahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 370

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    a sign of good weather. If the cuckoo or the swallow comes early it is a sign that we are going to have a bad summer - and if the cuckoo or the swallow comes late we are going to have a good summer.
    The robin has a red breast because when the soldiers were following St Stephen he had a cut on foot there was dots of blood on his way. When the robin would come to a dot of blood he would soak it up with his wings. That is how the robin had a red breast.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Mc Guinness
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Oram, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Neil Mc Guinness
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Oram, Co. Monaghan