School: Cluain Féinne (roll number 13710)
- Location:
- Cloonfane, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Conghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 369
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- (continued from previous page)If the robin comes into the house it is the sign of snow. when the seagulls rest near the farm house it is a sign of stormy weather. When crows and swallows fly high in the air it is the sign of fine weather.This is the way the red breast came on the robin our Saviour was dying on the cross the robin came and pulled a thorn out of his head; then a drop of blood fell on his breast and it is red since.The wren gave away St. Stephen. When the English were after St. Stephen to kill him he hid under a bush. When they went in the wren flew out screeching and that showed the pursuers where he was.
- Collector
- Seán Caulfield
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carracastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs J. Caulfield
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carracastle, Co. Mayo
