School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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“The way to set a trap for wild geese to make a hole with a wide bottom and a narrow top...”
(continued from previous page)If a hen eats her egg put a feather in her nose for a day
If a chicken is delicate I rub lamp oil to him and put him near the fire.
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“If a hen eats her egg put a feather in her nose for a day.”
If a hen eats her egg put a feather in her nose for a day
If a chicken is delicate I rub lamp oil to him and put him near the fire. - Informant
- Mr O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygowloge, Co. Kerry
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“This is the way the people would trap birds long ago.”
this is the way the people would trap birds long ago. They would make a small hole in the ground and put a big flag over the hole and they would get a stick and a long cord on to it and they would put bread into the hole and when the bird would go into get the bread they would pull the cord and the flag would pull a feather and they caught the bird the third time they would kill the bird.(continues on next page)