School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 356
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- (continued from previous page)When Our Lord was dying on the cross a little robin was flying about and it chanced to pass under Our Lord's Cross and a drop of blood fell on the breast of the robin and that is why the robin has a red breast.
One day (mrs) Mrs Cain of the Glen Ballybunion was opening a chicken's gall and she found a gold ring.
Long ago, people used to go cribbing. When a small bird was caught they used to pluck its tail and if they caught that little bird three times they would kill it.
In cribbing when a hen blackbird was caught a cock blackbird was bound to be caught after the hen and it is a lot harder to take a cock blackbird out of a crib than a hen.
- Collector
- Damien Stack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Tom Harnett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
