School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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This district being situated on the banks of the Shannon and the Maigue is the haunt of many wild birds and water fowl. The land on the river banks - Cregaune - Corcamore - Carnclogher - is flat and boggy and as there are large tracts of land with very few houses near it is a suitable nesting place for swans, seagulls, wildgeese, curlews, kingfisher, waterhens, wild ducks and snipe. In the woods of Tervoe and Clarina are grouse, wood-cock and pheasant. The above mentioned places also the neighbourhood of Carrig o Gunnell are favourite haunts of shooting parties during the winter months. The old ruins of Carrig O Gunnell and Kilkeedy's ruined church are suitable resting places for owls. A white owl supposed to have been seen in Kilkeedy a few years ago caused a mild sensation in the locality.
At some distance from the river banks there is no lack of hedges and cover(continues on next page)
