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   “The following are the wild birds which are known in the district, the robin, wen, stone-chatter, chaffinch, jay-thrush, wag-tail, house and hedge-sparrow, magpie, crow, sgal-crow, black-bird, sea-gull, crane, pheasant, wood-cock, and curlews or cold birds”

   

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   every year, that is if it is not broken. The black-bird sometimes does the same.
   The sgal-crow is seen in the Spring-time, when the young lambs are in the fields and sometimes kills them for food.

   

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   “When a person hears the bells and trains in the South its a sign of bad weather.”

   

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   When a person hears the bells and trains in the South it's a sign of bad weather. A ring round the moon is for rain, and when the curlew whistles it is a sign rain also. When the swallows fly low it is a sign of bad weather and when the crows fly high overhead it is a sign of storm. The fish come to the top of the water because the flies fly low for rain therefore

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy O' Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drogheda Road, Co. Louth