School: Loughill, Longford
- Location:
- Laughil, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 403
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- In Ireland the cuckoos, woodcocks, and swallows migrate. The cuckoo goes to sleep in some unknown place in the month of August. They come back and sing on the 20th of April. The wood-cocks go to Norway their own country when Winter is settling in. They come back in the month of November. The swallows go to a hot climate in the month of October. The come back in the month of April. here is a rhyme connected with the sleeping birds.
The bee, the bat, the butterfly,
The owl, the hawk, the sparrow,
The corn crake put out his beak,
And bid them all "good morra".
Here are the names of the birds and the places where the build their nest.
The robins build their nests in the buts of trees and in ditches.
The thrushes build their nests in a white-thorn bush.
The tom tits build their nests in an old wall.
The jays build their nests in the eaves of houses.
The crows build their nests in a very high up tree.
The swallows build their nests in sheds on the tops of the rafters.
The mags build their nests in a very high up tree.
The martins build their nests in the side of a boggy drain.
The jack daws build their nests in chimneys of houses.
The corn crake build their nests in the grass.
- Collector
- Sadie Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
