School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)

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1. Bird-Lore

   

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   The birds found in this district are thrushes, robins, wrens, crows, magpies, sparrows, stairs, and blackbirds'.
   The blackbirds and thrushes build the same sort of a nest; they build the nest of, hay, sticks, dirt, and feathers.
   They build in the bushes.
   The robins build their nests in mossy ditches.
   They build the nest of moss, sticks, and feathers.
   The wrens build their nests in hedges, they build their nest round, and leave a little hole in it, so that they would get into the nest, they build the nest of moss, sticks, and feathers.
   The crows and magpies build on a high tree, so that nobody would get up to them.
   They build a nest of sticks, and heath.
   The stairs and sparrows build in the eaves of the houses, they build it of hay and feathers.
   Each bird lays from four to six eggs.
   They sit a month on the eggs.
   If the boys rob birds nest, the birds will forsake the nest, and if the boys let their breath fall on the eggs, the bird will leave the nest.
   Birds give signs of the weather, if the curlews whistle

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Jermyn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockadrehid, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mr Frank Mulhern

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Derreenanarry, Co. Roscommon