School: Valleymount

Location:
Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 134

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  1. The jackdaw is not a very big bird. He is very like a crow only the jackdaws head is grey. It is said if you get a young jackdaw and split his tongue he will talk like a parrot. I never heard tell of any body doing this The jackdaw builds his nest is the top of a chimney. People some times pull down the nest because they block the chimney.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Shannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Boystown or Baltyboys Upper, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mr J. Shannon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Boystown or Baltyboys Upper, Co. Wicklow
  2. Ther is a bird by which you know if there is going to be a storm. The robin is one of them. I remember one evening after I coming home from school, I saw a robin standing on the door. I told my Mother to look and she did look. I asked her was that a sign of anything. She said we might have a storm about three day's after we had some snow
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