School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Ballyfeeny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0256, Page 020
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- (continued from previous page)Another bird offered to show her but she would not look. On this account she is said to be a lazy bird. There is always a little bird called a "[?]" following her, in order to tell the other birds that the cuckoo is coming.
The thrush, black-bird and corn-crake build their nest generally in a haw-thorn bush.
The wren builds it in a mossy ditch like the robin.
The crow, pigeon, seale-crow and the mag-pie builds their nest where high trees are.
The jack-dawn build their nest in an empty chimney.
The swallows build their nest in old barns.
- Collector
- Bernadette Morley
- Gender
- Female
