School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 177
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tattenclave
- XML Page 177
- XML “Bird-Lore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Crows, cranes, stares, woodquests, blackbirds, robins, wrens and thrushes are common. The swallow goes away to another country at the end of the summer. A woodquest builds her nest in Mc. Cabe's glen. She builds it on a lone bush. She builds it with sprigs, grass and dead leaves. Her eggs are white and as big as a hen egg. It take the wood quest three weeks to stay on her eggs.If boys rob bird's nests the bird comes and curses them. The wee birds are called skinnies. When the swallow flies low it is the sign of bad weather. When the curlew whistles it is the sign of rain.
- Collector
- James Farmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- James Kierans
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corleck, Co. Monaghan
