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School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

Location:
Adamstown, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
D. Curtis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 045

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    ground.
    It lives on flies. It gathers them in it crop until it wishes to eat them. It leaves us about the same time as the other birds of Passage.
    In no locality except that of Carrigbyrne is the bird known as the " Calick-a-Toorna ".
    ( Caileach na Túirne )
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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