School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 255
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- There are many kinds of wild birds such as the cuckoo, the corn-crake, the swallow, the wild goose and the wild duck. When Our Lord was on the cross there was a little robin flying round him, a drop of blood fell from Our Lord's head on the little robin's breast and from that he is called the little robin red-breast.
The wild birds got mostly in our district are the wild duck, the water hens, the curlews, the pilibin. There is also a little poem made about the cuckoo.
"The cuckoo comes in April,
He sings a song in May,
He whistles a tune in the middle of June,
And then he flies away."
The robin builds her nest in a low bush. The crows build their nests in a very high tree. The pilibin builds their nest in the middle of a moist field. The swallows build their nests in the house-eaves and there is also a poem made about them.
"The swallow oft beneath my thatch
Shall twitter from her clay."
The sparrow builds her next in the holes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
