School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 305
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Account of Plague (Birds)
I heard the following account from Mr. T. Burke, Dreenlomane. During two years previous to the "Great Snow" the former birds of this locality were a great plague to the people. Crops were destroyed by them, and although the snow was the cause of much damage, it was a great cure for the plague. They perished in numbers, and those which were able to fly migrated to foreign lands. The birds which we are now familiar with are really newcomers, for it was after the "Great Snow" they flocked in.
Eileen Coughlan,
Dreenlomane,
Ballydehob.
I got this information from:-
Mr. T. Burke,
Dreenlomane,
Ballydehob.
- Collector
- Eileen Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
