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School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 7636)

Location:
Mountrath, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Br. L. Ó Súilleabháin
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    twenty eggs. The crane is a large bird, it lives on fish. It builds its nest in the top of a high tree with two holes in the bottom of the nest for his long legs to hang down. There is a couple of stories told about the robin how it got the red breast, one of them is as follows; When Our Saviour was hanging on the Cross the robin came & tried to pull the nails out of his feet. When it was at work some of the blood fell on its breast & that is one of the reasons how the robin got the red breast.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    B. Dunne
    Address
    Mountrath, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Dunne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Mountrath, Co. Laois