School: Lios Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- An Lios Dubh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 406
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- (continued from previous page)of their nests and eggs but because they are up high and free from the hands of their enemys which are the children. Swallows and sparrows build in eaves of houses. The hen bird sits on the eggs three weeks before the young birds come out.
People can foretell the coming of future weather by the actions of some birds. If the curlew has a loud cry the people say we will have wet weather and if the swallow flies [?] we will have wet weather.
There is an old story told of how the robin got its red breast. When Our Lord was dying on the cross the robin came to him and tried to pick a thorn off his head a drop of blood fell on his breast and thence he has a red breast.
The swallow went round Our Lord was dying in the [?](continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na Móna, Co. Mhaigh Eo
