School: Béal Átha Feorainne (B.) (roll number 1866)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M.S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271B, Page 03_013
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- (continued from previous page)house to die. Neither of those two birds migrate.The crane is a very tall bird about as big as a hen. He is grey in colour. He feeds on fish and frogs and he is as good as a fisherman. He lays up to two or three eggs and hatches for four weeks. The father and mother are very busy when the young come out. It is the sign of good weather if she flies high and when she flies low it is the sign of bad weather. When she catches the fish she does not kill it at all. She swallows it. She builds her nest in marshes.
- Collector
- Anthony Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Roscommon
