School: Cluain Tuirc (B.)
- Location:
- Cluain Torc, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)and her eggs are white and black.If a boy robs a birds nest he is told that God is angry with him. When the swallow flies low and when the crows are cawing loudly are signs of rain. The birds that migrate are the swallow and the Cuckoo.It is said that when God the Son was crowned with thorns the robin pulled out a thorn and that is said that, that is how the robin got the red breast.
- Informant
- James Owens
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Cluain Cloimhe, Co. Liatroma