School: Baile Chíorbhaic, Domhnach Mór (roll number 1691)
- Location:
- Ballykerwick, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0347, Page 047
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- (continued from previous page)the cuckoo, swallow, the grey plover, wood-cock, starling, the wild-goose. In my district the robin builds her nest in a hole in a fence the swallow in a stall or out house. The crow in a tree and pigon. The black bird in a furse bush. The green plover or lapwing builds in bogs.
The nest is shaped like a saucer it is made of mud and cow-hair. The eggs are three times smaller than hens eggs.
If crows fly high and droop down all of a sudden it is a sign of rain. If swallows fly low inland it is a sign of rain.
The robbin has a red mark on her brest and it is said that a drop of blood fell on a robin as she stood at the food of the cross at Calvery.
- Collector
- Denis O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackabane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John O' Leary
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackabane, Co. Cork
