School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)the nest twenty one days.
Collected by Sheila Boland (14), Wood-of-O, Tullamore.
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- Collector
- Kate Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Doire Uí Ghruagáin Mór, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Cuckoo:- The cuckoo goes when she see's the first cock of hay. She comes on the twenty-third of April. She is heard a few days afterwards.
Swallow:- The swallows go ont the first of October. They come a week before the cuckoo.
Wild geese:- The wild geese leave in the beginning of April and go to Scotland. They come in the month of November.
Grey plover:- The grey plover goes and comes the same time as the wild geese.
Collected by Sheila Boland (14), Wood-of-O, Tullamore. - Willie Wag:- The willie is supposed to have(continues on next page)
