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School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum

Location:
Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow
Teachers:
Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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    BIRDS
    Common birds - robin, wren, crow, blackbird, thrush, yellow hammer, stone chattes, jackdaw, pigeon, magpie, sparrows
    Summer birds - swallow, cuckoo, corn-crake, gold finch
    Game birds - pheasant, partridge, snipe, duck.
    People say that if you rob a swallow's nest the cows will milk blood.
    Frank Ellison
    Whaley
    Rathdrum
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frank Ellison
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bahana (Whaley), Co. Wicklow