School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)in outhouses and in the thatch. The cuchoo does not build a nest. She goes and puts a bird out of her nest, throw out, the other, and lays her own eggs.
The robin has white, spotty kind of eggs. The crow and blackbird have black spotty eggs. When the cuckoo comes back in the summer time the corn should be sown. The swallows come back in groups in the summer time. It is a bad sign to see the swallows flying high. The robin, blackbird, crow, thrush, always stay with us. The lark comes to us when the warm weather begins.
- Collector
- Frank Moyna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Frank Moyna
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
