School: Cill Ábhaill
- Location:
- Killavil, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conláin
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- (continued from previous page)out of his hands the blood got on his breast and his breast is red since.
Collected by: Nora Rafferty, Ballintrufane
Heard from her mother Mary Rafferty aged 43 years
- There are many wild birds which come to this country for the summer. The wild goose comes to Ireland in the Winter and she goes away in Summer. She goes to the mountains of Scotland . When the people hear the curlew whistling they say it is the sign of rain. The swallow comes from Africa every year to build her nest. She builds her nest in a cowhouse or in a hayshed. The people say it is the sign of bad weather when the swallow flies low. they say that the robin got his red breast when he was trying to pull the nails out of Our Lords hands which was driven in the Cross and one of the drops of our Lords precious blood fell on his breast.
Collected by: Francis Coen, Harristown
Heard from his father Thomas Coen aged 70 years - Collector
- Francis Coen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballonaghan or Harristown, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Coen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballonaghan or Harristown, Co. Sligo
