School: An Lios Rua, Cill Mháille (roll number 9339)
- Location:
- An Lios Rua, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chonalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0608, Page 232
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is usually made on the side of a mountain or deep in a wood .It is always made in some lonely place.The fox usually eats all fowl of the farm yard as well as hares and rabbits.He is the animal that does the most damage in this district .He eats all fowls and this causes great distress to to the poultry maid.A woman who lived near the town went to the poultry house one morning and was very glad to find as she thought she had captured a fox.he lay down so quietly that she thought he was dead and with the excitement of it she went to call her husband .While she was gone the fox had taken to his den.
The badgers live in rivers .They live on fish ,hens and ducks.They are very clever animals .They have three stories in their in their dwelling places.which are made in the rivers and when a flood rises they go from the lower storey up to the next and if the water reaches that they go to the highest one where they are quite safe having an air hole on top.
The weasels(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Jack Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Buaile na Scraith, Co. an Chláir
