School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 247
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- There are a number of wild birds in our district such as:- The thrush, the black-bird, The mag-pie, the Jackdaw, The swallow, The goldfinch, the yellow hammer, the wren, the sparrow, the corn-crake, the pigeon, the hawk, the bog lark, and the Cuckoo.
The wren builds her nest in the thatch, the Jackdaw in a chimeny, The yellow hammer in a hole in the wall, The Corncrake in a meadow, The pigeon in a sgeach hedge, The sparrow in a house, The robin in a whin bush, the mag-pie in a big tree, the bog lark in a bog, the swallow in the roof of a house. The cuckoo builds no nest, she lays one egg and carries it to a larks nest. The birds have to sit on their eggs for three weeks,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lena Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigagh, Co. Meath
- Informant
- John Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigagh, Co. Meath
