School: Clonback, Aughnacliffe (roll number 15038)
- Location:
- Cloonback, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Seán Mac Ionnraic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 115
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- The swallow comes to us from a foreign country in the Spring and leaves us in the Winter. She builds her nests in the roofs of houses and lays four or five eggs. It is said "if a swallow walks on grass it will stick to it".
Another bird that comes to us from a foreign country is the cuckoo. This bird never builds a nest, she lays her eggs in some other bird's nest. "If the cuckoo comes and sings on a bare thorn sell your cow and buy corn".
An old rhyme says:-
The bee, the bat, the butterfly
The cuckoo and the swallow
The corn-crake, the weather bleak
And all the rest to follow
- Informant
- James Kiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Smear, Co. Longford
