School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 371
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“If a person robbed a nest he would would get sore hands.”
If a person robbed a nest he would would get sore hands. The way they used to catch birds was they used to dig a hole in the ground and put a slate over it and put a sally twig holding it up. Then they used to put a piece of meat into it and when the bird would go into get the piece of meat the slate falls down and the bird is trapped inside.
One day three came lodging to a house and there were three chickens hanging up and the men put them down in a pot over the fire and boiled them and ate them then they got their guns and went out in the rookery and shot three crows and plucked them and hung them up and when the people ate them they said they were lovely birds.
The crows never build their nests in Ballinrudder Listowel because the lanlord evicted the poor people in it to make a rookery for the crows but the crows refused for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerald Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mary Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry