School: Oram (roll number 8496)
- Location:
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. McMahon
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- (continued from previous page)a sign of good weather. If the cuckoo or the swallow comes early it is a sign that we are going to have a bad summer - and if the cuckoo or the swallow comes late we are going to have a good summer.
The robin has a red breast because when the soldiers were following St Stephen he had a cut on foot there was dots of blood on his way. When the robin would come to a dot of blood he would soak it up with his wings. That is how the robin had a red breast.- Collector
- Michael Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Neil Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Oram, Co. Monaghan