School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page)poultice of loaf bread on it.
'Boils' are cured by putting soap and sugar on them.
- The brds that migrate in our dustrict are, 'the cuckoo', 'the corncrake', and 'the swallow'.
The birds that do not migrate are, 'the pigeon', 'the crow', 'the starling', the thrush', 'the blackbird', the sparrow', 'the wren', 'the yellow-yorling', 'the gold-finch', 'the stone-chaffer', 'the robin', 'the mag-pie', 'the jack-daw', 'the snipe', 'the willy-wag-tail', 'the lark', 'the partidge', 'the hawk'.
'The cuckoo', does not build any nest, but lays in the 'lark's' nest. 'The cuckoo' lays a speckled egg. 'The lark' lays her egg in a lump of grass in the field. She lays a bright speckled egg.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Owen Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Katie Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummanbane, Co. Cavan
