School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)
- Location:
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0044
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Bird Lore
The names of all the common birds are the blackbirds, thrush, wren, robin, sparrow, skylark, goldfinch, bullfinch, chiffon finch, the yellowhammer, partridge, pheasant, snipe, green linnet, hawk, seagull, crow, curlew, grouse, wagtail, starling, magpie, water-hen, the plover and the pigeon. The birds that came to us in the Spring are the swallows, the cuckoo and the corncrake. The swallows come about the first week in June. They start to build their nests under the roofs of houses. They stick their nests to planks or walls. When the young ones are hatched the parent birds generally feed them on flies. They disappear around the month of September.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Costello
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
