School: Cor an Chasáin
- Location:
- Cornasaus, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)fastened tightly to a wooden peg which is drive firmly into the ground. Poachers who trespass on the outskirts of woods of demesnes tie their snares in the middle of a wattle about three feet long, and leave them lying flat on the ground. When the rabbit is caught he bolts immediately for the burrow to find that he cannot reach his destination; because the ends of the stick are against the sides of the burrow, and there he remains until the captor comes around around and makes him captive.
Long-netting of rabbits is a favourite game on proclaimed ground in the bright Winter nights. Five or six men get together preferably on a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- A. B. Thompson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornanurney, Co. Cavan
