School: Teamhair, Áth Treasna

Location:
Taur, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Dd. Ó Súillleabháin
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    The names of the birds in my locality are the crow, the magpie, the thrush, the wren, the robin, the lark, the green linnet, and grey linnet, the yellow hammet, the grouse, the snipe, and the finch, The migrating birds are the cuckoo, swallow, and landrail. The robin builds its rest on the side of a fence. The nest is made of hay and lined with the hair of a cow, it lays four eggs and sits on them for three weeks. If boys rob bird's nests it is said they would get sores in their hands
    There is a story told about the robin.
    When the soldiers were looking for Our Lord to kill Him. He walked over a field where a man was sowing wheat, and drops of blood fell from Our Lord, as He walked across it, and by a miracle the wheat sprang up in one night. The next day the soldiers came the same way in search for Our Lord. There was a robin on a thorn bush in the wheat field and it saw the soldiers coming. It lay upon every drop of blood that marked our Lord's tracks, from that day the robin had a red breast. The soldiers asked the robin if it had seen a man passing that way lately. "Not" says the robin "since that wheat was sown', "at that rate" said the soldiers "we are on the wrong track". The soldiers were going away when
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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Finucane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Inchantotane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Timothy Finucane
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Inchantotane, Co. Cork