School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 018
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- (continued from previous page)cuckoo makes no nest.
The pigeon says "take two, Teddy, take two". One day a boy went to steal apples from an orchard. A pigeon was on the top of a tree. The boy took one apple and the pigeon cried out, "Take two, Teddy, take two
If we frighten a crow we hear him say "baw, baw". He asks us where he is to go in Irish too, Cá Cá.
Each bird has its own kind of nest. Some nest in the trees, some in house-tops and others in grass. The robin builds her nest on shady bank. It is made of sticks and lined with hay. The skylark's nest is got amongst the grass.
The wren builds her small nest in an ivy tree, thus we have the verse:
'The wren builds in an ivied (tree) thorn
Or old and ruined wall,
The mossy nest so covered in,
You scarce can see at all.'
The martin builds his nest of clay in rows(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sally Darcy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rockview, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Slattery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Drumminascart, Co. Tipperary
