School: Ferbane (B.)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)pass by him one by one. As they passed he took a colour from each of them and gave it to the finch.
As soon as this was done off went the Goldfinch with a bit of every colour of the rainbow.
- The hawk is the wildest of all the birds in the district. It lays eight brown eggs, and it builds its nest on the top of a high tree. It feeds itself by killing the other birds and eating them
- Collector
- Patrick Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
