School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)
- Location:
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1105, Page 219
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- (continued from previous page)on like that till they are able to fly and then they go off and look for their own food.The crows usually feed in flocks and the also build their nests together. Sometimes you can see three or four nests on one branch. When the young ones come out of their nests to the branches the farmer usually shoots as many of them as he can because they pull out the potatoes when they are planted and they eat the corn and wheat when it is sown and that is why they are so much disliked.The farmer usually ties a dead crow on a stick or makes a man out of straw. He usually gets an old pair of trousers and stuffs them with straw and ties an old coat on him too and puts him up on a stick and the crows never come near the potatoes because they think it is a man standing in them.
- Collector
- George Hepburn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lettergull, Co. Donegal
