School: Bennettschurch, Baile Mhic Cairbre
- Location:
- Graignagower, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhíomasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0656, Page 162
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- The names of the animals are deer, fox, badger, hare and rabbit.
The deer has a nest in the wood, the fox and badger have a nest on the hill. The hare and rabbit have a burrow in the ground. The fox eats fowl and rabbits. The badger destroys the crops. The hare has long nails. He uses these for marking his burrow. The badger has a kind of square nest in the ferns.
If a dog bit a person to get the same dog to lick it, it would cure soon. The blood of a wild cat would cure wild fire.
The badger bores a hole in the ground, he makes steps and when the dogs come to hunt him he fights one of them on each step. The weasel makes his nest in a hole in the ditch. The otter makes his dest in a den under the water and build it upwards, so as to be away from the water. The fox often hunts the badger and takes the nest himself.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Bean Uí Corbháin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 66
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Curraghateskin, Co. Waterford
