School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Cluain Caoin, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)one out Some of His Precious Blood got on its breast it made it red and robins have red breasts since.
- The magpie is supposed to have all the devil's blood in her and the willie-water-wagtail is supposed to have two drops of it, that is why it is so hard to kill it. They say that if you cut a cut a jackdaw's tongue with an old sixpenny bit he will talk. The crow always starts to build on the 1st day of March but if it falls on a Sunday they will not start till the next day. The wren is said to be the devils bird, she builds nicest nest, she lays more eggs than any other bird - up to eighteen but she throws out most of them. The bird that follows the cuckoo is called a mudlark. The woodpigeon just puts a few sticks across and on them she lays two snow-white eggs. She takes three weeks to hatch them out, they are the most harmful of birds.
- Collector
- Thomas White
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muileann Fúca, Co. Loch Garman
