School: Baile an Chaisil B.

Location:
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0139, Page 629

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  1. The rabbit is one of our [?] wild animals and is often petted, but is very timid and a prey to the fox which keeps its numbers from increasing rapidly. It is destructive to young plants such as cabbage, peas, and turnips ets. When taking unawares it becomes so frightened that it lies down, pretends it is dead, deceives the hunter and his dogs. Nature made it entirely defenceless except that it can borrow and make a safe retreat for it self in the ground and never wanders very far
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dan Lenihan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Polke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    63
    Address
    Ballycastle, Co. Mayo