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School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 347

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    leave our country for the Winter is too cold for them so they go to a warmer country.
    These birds can fly without map or compass.
    On their way they take rest on masts of ships.
    It is said that the young swallows leave two or three weeks before the older ones.
    Some of them die on their journey.
    They go to South Africa. They cross the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert until they reach their old native land. When the swallows swoop close to the ground it is a bad sign of the weather. Crows and rooks collect in numbers. They scream and call and fly low along the ground, people say that is a sign of a storm.
    When it is drawing near night sometimes you would hear curlews screaming that is a sign
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sandie Allen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal