School: An Sciobairín
- Location:
- Skibbereen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cuileanáin
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- (continued from previous page)the bird-limed sticks or twigs and is thus caught.
Birdbaskets are four-sided baskets coming to a point on top. There are about square at the ground by a twig.
The bird to be caught perches on this twig. Its weigh beings down the basket with the bird inside.
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- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Donchadha
- Gender
- Male