School: Garrowhill, Longford (roll number 10344)
- Location:
- Garrowhill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 505
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- There are a lot of wild birds around my district. There are Crows, Blackbirds, Robins, Thrushes, wrens, Stone Checkers, Wild Geese, and Wild Ducks, cuckoo, Corncrake, Swallow.
The Crow stays in Ireland all the year round she builds her nest on the top of a tree, she makes a big nest of hay and little twigs or branches and she plasters it with clay, she lays six big blue eggs, they hatch the eggs for about three weeks. The Blackbird stays in Ireland too, they make a nest in a hedge, they lay five blue eggs, they hatch them for three weeks, they build the nest with moss and feathers and sticks and mud. The Robin builds in a mossy ditch and lays six eggs, she hatches for three week
- Collector
- D. Conboy
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Kilmore Upper, Co. Longford
