School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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- The birds are rearing out their young ones now. The most common ones are the blackbird, the crow and the robin. The crows fly about in large numbers and they eat the grains of corn in the spring.
The farmers do not like the crows and they try to shoot them. The farmers do not like the magpie or the hawk because they eat chickens.
The farmers like the robin and wren and thrush and some other small birds because they eat worms and insects that eat the farmers crops.
People judge the weather by the crows. They say if the crows fly high there will be good weather and if they fly low there will be rain. The weather is also judged by the crane, if she flies down the river there will be good weather, and if she flies up the river there will be bad weather.
The crows build their nests in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Roundtree
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gartnaneane, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr J. Roundtree
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gartnaneane, Co. Cavan
