School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhriaghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 496
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- The partridge is seen in lands and fields in the winter. It is a grey bird about the size of a seagull.
When the curlew gives a double whistle it is a sign of bad weather, but when it gives only the single whistle, dry hard weather will follow.
The wild swan is a large white bird about once and a half the size of a goose. It is a beautiful bird with a very red bill and all the time making motions with its wings. The female swan lays two or three eggs in the soft boggy lands near the river bank. A few years ago there were not many to be seen on the River Blackwater between Lismore and Fermoy, a distance of sixteen miles. From ten to fifteen of them rise up in the air together and when flying along they make a whizzing sound, and if you listen to them you hear a sound of wack, wack, wack. They are to be seen on the river banks at all times of the year.
The crane is a long thin bird with a very long neck. The body seems to be all bones with no flesh on it. It is grey in colour and lives on small side streams and rivers.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Helen Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garrison, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr James Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Garrison, Co. Waterford
