School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)

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1. Bird-Lore

   

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   The wild birds in this district are blackbirds, Thrushes, swallows, robins, larks, and cuckoos. Swallows and cuckoos migrate but other birds remain with us. The blackbirds, robins, and thrushes build their nests in trees and bushes. The swallows build their nests in the eaves of the houses or in the holes in the walls, but the lark is different to all these birds he chooses a lonely spot for himself down in the corner or some-times in a cow's foot print. The cuckoo never builds a nest for herself but lays her eggs in the nest of another bird and hunts her away. Almost all the birds sit on their eggs for three weeks and usually little boys are told not to rob bird's nests warts are supposed to come on their hands. The weather can be judged by the preculiarities of certain birds. When the swallows fly fine weather is coming or expected to continue but when they fly low and close to the land wet weather is approaching. When the seaguls assemble on the land

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lizzie Harrington

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mr Hickey

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary