School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 197
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- (continued from previous page)ground and sleeps in it for the winter.
The weasel is a very wild animal. He kills all kinds of young fowl and fights to death. The otter is to be found in banks of rivers and like the badger his skin is very valuable. The ferret is a very small animal and kills rabbits and fowl. It is said that if you give a ferret milk to drink, whatever he leaves is a cure for hooping cough. The hare is good game. His nest is found in a bunch of rushes or in the back of a ditch. There is soup made from his flesh. The rabbit lives in a burrow and it is great sport to go hunting rabbits on a Sunday. The squirrel lives in the trunk of a tree He is a very clever animal when the nuts are plentiful(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardglass, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Thomas O' Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardglass, Co. Cork
