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School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

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Drom, Co. Tipperary
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Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 269

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  1. Bird-Lore - Description of Nest (continued)

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    and feathers. She leaves a hole in the side of it. The eggs are blue dotted with brown.
    Starlings make their nest in an ivy bush. They make it with bits of sticks and lines it with hair and leaves.
    The swallow makes its nest of dry mud and lines it with feathers and dry bits of straw.
    The blackbird makes it the same as the thrush. The eggs are blue. Every bird stays three weeks hatching the eggs. If boys rob a birds nest they would get as a punish-ment a sore foot or a sore leg. They would also get warts on their hands or face.
    Edward Kirwan, Knocka, Drom, Thurles, Tipp
    Material obtained from:-
    William Kirwan, Knocka, Drom, Thurles, Tipperary.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Bird-Lore Stories - Relating to our Lord

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    Bird Love Stories - Relating to Our Lord
    The robin is one of the birds connected with Our Lord's Life. It is said that when Our Lord was dying on the cross the robin came and began to pick the thorns out of his head and whilst doing so some drops of the sacred blood fell on the robin's breast. That is the why it is called Robin Red Breast.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Troy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Tobias Troy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary