School: Cormaddyduff
- Location:
- Cormaddyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghiolla Sheanain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 254
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- The swallow is a very sensitive bird that shows gratitude for the smallest act of kindness. This conclusion can be drawn from an account given by a lone bachelor showing how an aged swallow, in her own dumb way thanked him for one crumb of bread at a period when she was in sore need.
Micky Monaghan, Enagh, Virginia, Co. Cavan holds that birds in general frequent his house more than his neighbours' houses their object being to cheer him up. However it cannot be denied that the swallows are his annual visitors seeking entrance, at first rather shyly through his barn chimney and then on a personal invitation through his hall door The older swallows appear rather self-concieted and seem to rebuke the younger ones, who in turn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary E. Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Micky Monaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Enagh, Co. Cavan
