School: Droichead an Chláir (B.). Clarecastle
- Location:
- Clarecastle, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Háinlighe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 383
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and acorns and makes a store of them for Winter.
The otter lives in banks of rivers in reeds and in rushes.He can live in water or on land.He lives on fish and destroys salmon and wild birds.He would kill farmyard fowl also.He makes bubbles when swimming under water this betrays him.
The porcupine makes his neat of hay in side of walls
and hedges.He eats grass vegetable and fruit.He moves around only early in the morning.
Paddy Gleeson of Ballyea tells that a fox destroyed his flock of hens by forcing his way through but could not get out.He covered himself with dead hens .Next morning the woman of the house found them dead and the fox pretending to be dead under them.She called her husband out left the door open and the fox escaped.
The leavings of a ferret are good for chincough.
- Collector
- John Lynch
- Gender
- Male
