School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)Continued from page 107.winter so mild that the hay famine that was there had no effect, the grass was so good and plentiful. Will get the rain in God's good time and people shouldn't be grumbling. The drought lasted from march to august.(From Danl. Cussen, 70 - 8.5.1938)
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“There is a feather in a corncrake and it is used to make a trout fly.”
There is a feather in a corncrake and it is used to make a trout fly. Time was when the people of Parteen tied their own flies - they were all fishermen there - instead of buying them. They used this corncrake's feather rather generally and as the particular feather required is not very generously distributed on the bird's body, the demand for the particular fly incurred a heavy toll on the visiting corncrakes. The latter were lured in a peculiar way to their death. On the shoulder bone of a sheep, which is roughly the shape of an elongated triangle, there is a ridge of think bone, perhaps cartilage is the correct word, and when a rod is drawn across this bone ridge or cartilage, a faithful reproduction of the corncrake's mating call is produced. The fishermen of Parteen, in groups of three or four, went to the meadows and played fiddle wise on the bone. Gradually every corncrake within earshot, attracted by the love call, trustingly assembled about the(continues on next page)
