School: Shanakill, Roscrea
- Location:
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 138
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“Robins, Wrens, Yellow-hammers, Crows, Seagulls, Magpies, Willy-wagtails, Thrushes, Blackbird, Curlew, Cranes, Bats, Swallows, Daws and larks...”
(continued from previous page)wet places. She makes her nest in a tuft of grass in a boggy place.
The cuckoo is about as big as a hawk. A little bird called the bog lark follows her. The cuckoo never builds a nest but lays her egg in a bog lark's nest. The cuckoo never hatches but when the lark hatches the young cuckoo shoves out the young larks and gets all the food herself. The young cuckoo is very greedy.
The cuckoo comes about the 23rd of April and goes away on 14th of August.
The cuckoo, swallow, wild-ducks, corncrake migrate from us.
Bird-Lore
“The starlings come in flocks in Winter and lodge in fields, and chatter together for a few minutes...”
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- Neddie Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- William Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanakill, Co. Tipperary