School: Cnoc an Teampoill (C.), Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Freemount, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bean an Bhreathnaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 294
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Bird LoreIf a boy robbed a birds nest he would get sore hands or sore feet which would be called a blast. Long ago the people could tell what kind of weather they were going to have such as if the seagulls come inland there was going to be a storm and if the crows landed in the side of a fence it was a sign of rain and if the swallows flew near the ground it was also a sign of rain. I heard an old man say how the robin got his redbreast was when Our Lord was nailed to the cross the little robin was the bird who went near the cross to pull off the nails. When he did go some blood fell down on his breast and stained it red and it is red ever since.The jackdaw builds his nest in a tree or in the top of a house in the chimney.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glanycummane Lower, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Foley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glanycummane Lower, Co. Cork
