School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)or ditch till they Spring comes.
She builds her nest on the ground and she lays fifteen or seventeen eggs and the colour of the young corncrakes are black and the old corncrakes are a reddish colour.
"Eight and eight corncrake" is what the corncrake says.
The lark is a brown bird she is not very large she is also a great songster, she flies very high in the sky and she builds her nest on the ground. She lays four or five eggs. The kind of a nest is just a hole in the ground and pads it with feathers.
The snipe is a fairly big brown bird with a very long bill she builds her nest in a clump of rushes she lays three pointed eggs with dark spots over them. She is sometimes called the night goat because she makes the same noise as a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Lowry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
