School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 277
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- Towards the end of Spring many of the Summer birds make their appearence such as the swallow, cuckoo and corncrake. The swallow builds its nest under the eave of a house, the corncrake in a meadow and the cuckoo, laziest of all birds, builds no nest at all. Each bird takes about two weeks to hatch out their young. The birds which stay with us are the thrush, blackbird, linnet, finch, wren, robin, yellow hammer and wagtail. The thrushe's nest is built in a furze bush, the blackbird's in a "sceac", the linnet in a furze also, the finch in blackthorns, the yellow hammer and robin in a hole in the ditch, the wren in a fur or sceac and the wagtail in a hole in the wall. There are many funny tales attached to those birds for example, many years ago the blackbird's colour was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Hennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Haresmead, Co. Wexford
