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School: Eanach Dubh (B.) (roll number 13656)

Location:
Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Thomas Morahan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 111

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    The wild birds most familiar in my district are the blackbird, robin, swallow, crow, cuckoo and wild duck.
    Of the many species named, the only ones that migrate to distant foreign lands are the swallow and cuckoo.
    These birds usually build their nests in bushes and the wild duck builds her nest in marshy bogs or by the water's edge. The time which those birds sit hatching away from two weeks to a month.
    I often heard my parents making use of the statement that when sea-gulls assemble on land wet and stormy weather is at hand.
    It is an old saying that when swallows fly high it indicated good weather and when they fly low it denotes rain. Before
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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    B. O Toole
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrick, Co. Leitrim