School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 263
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- Bird | Nest | Eggs | HatchingSwallow | a small nest in a house. | six white spotted eggs. | fortnight.
Cuckoo | lays in another bird's nest. | one white egg. | a fortnight.
starling | a small nest in a wall. | five green eggs. | a fortnight.
corncrake | a big nest in a hay field. | eight brown eggs. | fortnight.
May thrush | a big nest in a high tree. | four green eggs. | fortnight.
robin | a small nest in a bank. | five brown eggs. | fortnight.
magpie | a big nest in a high bush. | seven white eggs. | fortnight.
wren | a small round nest in a bush. | from eighteen to twenty four brown eggs. | fortnight.
sparrow | a small nest in a bush. | five green eggs. | fortnight.
blackbird | a big nest n a hedge. | four blue eggs. | fortnight.
hawk | a large nest in a tree. | two to five blue eggs. | fortnight.
jack daw | a large nest in a tree. | four black and white eggs. | fortnight.
thrush | a big nest in a hedge. | five green eggs. | fortnight.
pigeon | a big nest in a tree. | two white eggs. | fortnight.
goldfinch | a small nest in an apple tree. | four brown eggs. | fortnight.
wildduck | a big nest on a bank. | twelve green eggs. | a month.
swan | a large nest on an island. | six to eight white eggs. | a month.
waterhen | a small nest in a bog. | six brown and white eggs. | a month.
lark | a small nest on the ground. | four brown eggs. | fortnight.
pheasant | a large nest on the ground. | ten to fifteen brown spotted eggs. | a month.
