School: Tobar na Brón, Piltown (roll number 1468)
- Location:
- Tobernabrone, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Paor
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- Bird Lore
The wild birds that are commonly found in my district is the robin the wren sparrow black bird and the thrush Three of them emigrate the names of them are the swallow corncrake and the cuckoo comes over the comes from foreign countries the first of summer and returns the end of summer.
In my district the birds build's their nest in bushes house eaves or in holes in wall and fences on tree tops
The Robin builds her nest in a hole in the the wall and makes it with moss and lines it inside with hair, she lays five white eggs dotted with brown brown about the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Mach Fachtna
- Gender
- Male
