School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill Dá Lua
- Location:
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Aileabhaird
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- (continued from previous page)district relating to the robin redbreast and how he came to have a red breast. One of the most popular is as follows:- It is said that when the soldiers placed the wreath of sharp thorns on the head of our Saviour that the robin went and picked them out one by one with his beak. The blood from our Saviours head was supposed to have fallen on the robin thus giving him a red breast.
The nest of the blackbird is to be found hidden among the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Frances O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymoloney, Co. Clare