School: Altóir, Tuar Mór, An Sciobairín (roll number 12071)
- Location:
- Altar, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Henry Evanson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0287, Page 260
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- (continued from previous page)for about three weeks. The Linnet, the Ladywagtail, and the Yellow-hammer build their nests like the starling.
The following belong to class (b) above, viz, the swallow, the cuckoo, and the corncrake. The swallow comes to Ireland about the end of Spring or the first of Summer, when she is about to make her nest. She builds her nest of moss and small sticks in the eaves of houses or in some closed-in place, such as an old ruined house. She lays about four eggs. She sits on them for three weeks and then the young birds come out. The swallows, young and old, go back to Africa about the end of Summer or the first of Autumn.
Some days before they go they all gather together on the telegraph wires and seem to be talking to one another and making preparations and arrangements for their long flight. Then, the young swallows leave first, and the old ones soon afterwards. When the swallows leave Ireland the first place they land is France where they rest for a few days after, which they proceed on their journey, taking it by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frances J. Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Altar, Co. Cork
