School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- How to make a bird sing. Get a knife and tongs and rub the knife up and down the tongs and that will teach him how to sing.
- Collector
- Michael O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- My father Michael Holyoake told me that in the days before the manufacture of bird-lime the way they used to catch birds was they would dig a square hole in the ground and place a slate over it. Then they would get a piece of stick and place it standing up under it and then tie a piece of a sugan rope on to it. Then they would put(continues on next page)
