School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)
- Location:
- Crappagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Horan
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- The birds common to this district are the robin, thrush, blackbird, crow, hawk, sparrow, chaffinch, magpie, stone-chat, tom-tit, yellowhammer wren and wag-tail. The swallow, cuckoo and corn-crake are seen here in summer but they migrate.
We hear the cuckoo & corncrake when the blades of corn begin to appear and the swallows soon arrive then. Every year the same cuckoo & corncrake seem to come to he same spot. People say if you look under your foot when you hear the first song of either and see a grey hair that you will live to be a ripe old age, and if you hear either of them fasting that you won't live to hear them the following year.
It is supposed to be a good sign to see the trees and bushes covered with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockcor, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Peter Mc Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumary, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Willie Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockcor, Co. Monaghan
