School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)He makes eye water and he uses bog water in the making of it.
When people eyes get blinded, they send to James Kennedys for the eye water.
- Bird lore
There are a lot of "willie wagtails, bog lark's, house sparrows and snipes around here. The cuckoo, the corn crake and the swallows come to live here in summer.
It is a bad sign to see the cuckoo coming early in April.
It is said that a girl will marry a boy from the direction which she hears the cuckoo for the first time of the year.
If a cuckoo sings on a bar?.. Tree it is said to "sell your cow and buy corn".
The swallow builds her nest in the same place every year.
