School: Ramonan
- Location:
- Ramonan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Maeve Turner
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- (continued from previous page)on his head, the robin flew around his head, and plucked a thorn from his brow, and as he did so a drop of blood fell on his breast, and ever since the robin has a red breast.
There is a legend which tells how the swallow has a forked tail. One day as it sat on a branch in Africa a snake glided up into the tree, and it made a grab at the swallow, but it only succeeded in taking a few feathers out of its tail, thus leaving a fork, and ever since the swallow has a forked tail.
There is an old story about the corncrake that when it crakes in a meadow, it is supposed to be saying, "Eight and eight pence, eight and eight pence, very good wages, take it, take it."
- Collector
- Neville Hawthorne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Claddagh, Co. Cavan
