School: Carrigeencor (roll number 10826)
- Location:
- Carrigeencor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Annie Gillmor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 055
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- Rooks are distinguished from common crows by their glossy, purply-black, satiny suit of feathers. They build together in a rookery, in tall trees. There is a rookery at James McCordick's Bohey Dromahair. The mother bird weaves twigs in and out and smoothes them down with her beak, and fixes it with mud. When it dries it is very snug and safe. The eggs are a pretty green marked with grey and brown. Rooks eats insects when young but when older eat young turnips and are often seen in the corn fields.
- Collector
- Annie Gillmor
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
