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Legends of Saints & Sinners. Collected and Translated from the Irish

Note 19 — THE ADVENTURES OF LÉITHIN

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The word "préachan," though it usually means crow, is applied to the seabhac or hawk in this poem. In Co. Roscommon I always heard the Marsh Harrier (or Kite as they called him in English), termed "préachan gcearc" in Irish.

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