School: St Oran's, Buncrana

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   The robin builds her nest in the ditch. Her nest is net and tidy built with [?] grass and linde with feathers and [?] hair. The trush builds her nest in a thick hedge whitch no body can see. [?] trushs is built with twigs and grass the trush lays blue eggs and the robin lays five white eggs. The ran builds her nest in under a brue with fog and with feathers she lays 10 white eggs. [?] builds her nest all around but [?] wee hole for her to go in.

   The way the robin got the red brest she was flying by our Lord when he was cruisfied and a drop of blood droped on his brest. The robin sits on her eggs three weeks. The ran sits on the eggs three weeks. The cuckow lay a neg in every nest and the other birds sit on the eggs.

   

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   There was a man near our district. He lived in Keelogs Buncrana. This man was a great singer. His name was George Doherty. He is dead now. He was a good singer too. He used to sing a song called my lovely

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Baldrick

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   79

   Address

   Ballynarry, Co. Donegal