School: Tráigh Omna (roll number 13092)
- Location:
- Drishanemore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 054
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- An old custom was to take a lantern in the winter time and go to a wood or place where birds were sleeping. The light of the lantern dazzled the birds and they were easily caught.
- Boys and girls in winter time used to make a small hole in a field over which they placed a flat stone or portion of slate in a slanting position. [drawing on page]
Food was placed on a twig so that when the bird perched on the twig the slate fell and covered her in the hole. This bird trap was called a "leach ar tinneal"
