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School: Gowran (C.)

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Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 052

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    While Our Lord was hanging on the cross on Good Friday the robin saw the crown of thorns & he thought to take it off by pecking it & after a while he felt something trickling down his breat & he looked at it & it was blood. That is how he got his Red Breast.
    The cuckoo is a very lazy bird she takes another nest and lays the eggs & leave them to another bird to hatch.
    The lark builds it nest in the corn.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eithne Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Rathcash, Co. Kilkenny