School: Sruth Nua
- Location:
- Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás de Brún
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hedge hog is a very quiet animal. He stays in his nest all day and at night he searches for his prey.
He eats grass and if he got into an apple garden where apples would be on the ground he would roll himself in them then the apples would stick to his thorns.
In this way he would carry a lot of apples. If he got a cow lying down at night he would suck her.
Up in Clooncormack there was a deep park where the used to keep deers
They people used to bring the deer about six miles from home and then let him out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Bourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Sarah Walshe
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
