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   “There is a man in Duagh named Tim Donoghue.”

   

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   he made a drive at one of them and killed him. The cat was eating the bird and the Donoghue man saw him and took the bird from the cat and on the bird's leg there was a ring with Central Russia. The Donoghue man cut the leg off the Black Bird. The next day the Donoghue was fixing a fence and he saw a black bird's nest and the young birds had red combs on their heads and green bills and the bird the cat killed was the same and it is said that there he had his nest.

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   “When the Willie Wagtail comes outside the door and dips his tail in water...”

   

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   When the Willie Wagtail comes outside the door and dips his tail in water it is a sign of rain.
   When the crow flies low it is a sign of rain and when the crows fly high it is a sign of good weather.

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