School: Drong (roll number 15699)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán P. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 149
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- (continued from previous page)and it is said that one time when Our Lord sent an angel to paint all the birds he had every colour of paint, and he was in a hurry and he dipped the blackbird's bill into the box of paint, and that is why it has a brown bill.
The crow is also a black bird and she feeds her-self on corn and raw potatoes.
The swallows are little birds about the size of a robin. It is of a black and white colour. It comes here about the 'month of April, and it leaves again about the Month of September.
The seasgulls are fair sized birds and are of a white colour, and they feed by the shore and if they are saw assembling on the land it is always the sign of rain.
The brent or barnacle goose is a large bird and it comes to Drung shore every year, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Bonner
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyargus, Co. Donegal
