School: O' Connor Don
- Location:
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 066
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- The wild birds in our district are Mags, Crows, wrens, robins, blackbirds, larks, snipe, grouse, swallows, water hens.
The mags and crows build their nest on the top of high trees. Thrushes robins blackbirds build in low hedges. Larks snipe grouses build in the bogs. Swallows build in hay sheds.
Some of these birds migrate to other country such as the Wild geese Corncrake Cuckoo. Some of the birds when you see them flying low you say it is the sine of bad weather and when flying high it is the sine of good weather. Boys are told if they rob a bird's nest the birds would curse them.
It is that their is a bit gone off the swallows tail and that serpent(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tómas Ó Fhloinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloontarsna, Co. Roscommon
