School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)goat.
The owl has a face like a goat she is a brown bird she lives mostly in the woods and forests.
Cranes are big gray birds with big long legs. She lives mostly in the bogs and she generally builds her nest there also.
Wagtails are little black and white birds something like a magpie only she is very small with a very long tail. She builds her nest along the bank of a river on the edge of a stream. - Put a few spoonfuls of lime in cold water, , leave overnight. In the morning either take the scum which will have gathered on it and apply to the sore, bath the sore with some of the limewater
- Collector
- May Mc Clelland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan