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School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 349

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 349

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    swallow and the cuckoo leave this country in the month of August and return to warmer lands.
    These birds rest on their long journey and find food. The young swallows are born in Ireland and young swallows leave three weeks before their parents and fly without map or compass across the Alps and Mediterranean.
    Wood cock is a favourite of a gun man.
    These birds hide all day in dead brakes and fallen leaves. The wood cock probes in mud for worms which is it cheif feeding , the long bill is a, mass of nerves at the tip of the bill
    Traps are sets for these woodcocks and also dulls.
    These dulls are mad out of three horse hair plaited
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Steele
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal