School: Ballyhogue

Location:
Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mrs. Margaret Cahill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 199

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  1. The names of the wild birds found in Ballyhogue are crows, robins, wrens, thrushes, blackbirds, bullfinches, goldfinches, woodquests, swans, waterhens, dumpers, yellow-hammers, grannycoriesks, tom-tits, swallows, and magpies, green linnets, willy-water-wag-tails, polly-white-wings, rooks, and corncrakes.
    The swallows migrate in the month of November. They come back in the month of April.
    "The cuckoo comes in April, sings a song in May, in leafy June he changes his tune and in July he flies away,"
    "The robin and the wren are God's cock and hen; the cuckoo and the sparrow are God's plough and harrow."
    "The bee, the bat, the butter-fly, the cuckoo and the swallow; the corncrake puts out his beak and bids us all good morrow." "Who killed cock robin" "I" said the sparrow "with my bow and arrow
    "who saw him die? "I" said the fly "with my little eye."
    The wood-quest says "coo coo coo" the wren lays the full of her nest of eggs and the cuckoo only lays two. The corncrake says "crake crake."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    James Higginbotam
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford