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School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)

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Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 205

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    Summer and it goes away in the winter. The swallow travels by water, it alights on a ship and get carried many miles.
    The swallow comes back to it nest year after year until the nest is unfit to live in. It is said that if a swallow landed in grass it would get so tangled in it and could not fly. The swallow generally alights on telegraph poles and electric wires. The swallow comes about the 28th. April and goes on the 1st., 2nd, 3rd, of September.
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