School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   The magpie builds in blackthorh bushes
   The linnet builds in grass
   The wren lays sixteen eggs which are white with brown dots.
   The thrush, blackbird, jackdaw, crow and magpie lay about five eggs each which is blue with brown dots.
   The cuckoo lays her egg in any nest she is near. She never builds a nest of her own.

   

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2. Holy Wells

   

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   There is a well in Carrakennedy and there is a little graveyard beside it where little children used to be buried and there is a tree beside it and a woman cut it one time and that day her child got sick and was sick for a long time. There is another well in Aughagower and there was a barrack beside it and one day the guard's wife

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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Noonan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aghagower, Co. Mayo