School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 321
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- (continued from previous page)There is a mass in the Sleadrin district called the mass pad and it is a good road in olden times. It was the way the people went to the mass rock.
- The names of the birds in our district are the robin the blackbird the wren the thrush the swallow the whingraze the [?] a gulls the sparrow the cuckoo the owl the lark the canary the nightingale the magpie and the crowThe robin build its nest in a hole in the ditch. The blackbird its nest in the bottom of a whin bush. The wren builds its nest in the roof of a thatched house. The thrush builds in the middle of a hawthorn bush. The swallow builds high up in a tree. The whingraze build in a whin. The sparrow builds in a hedge. The owl builds its nest in a hole in the wall. The [?] builds in a rush bush and the nightingale builds in a ditch.The blackbird has a yellow bill because she builds her nest in a whin bush and the bush is yellow. The thrush(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Baldrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Ballynarry, Co. Donegal
