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School: Kilmurry

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Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
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A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 199

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    Jack Daw:- The jack daw makes her nest in a high tree. She makes it out of small sticks. She lays four eggs the colour of them are white with brown spots.
    Rayfolk:- The rayfolk makes her nest in a ditch. She lays dark blue eggs. She hatches them for three weeks. She lays four or five eggs.
    Collected by Kate Coyne (12), Derrygrogan, Daingean.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Cuckoo:- The cuckoo goes when she see's the first cock of hay. She comes on the twenty-third of April. She is heard a few days afterwards.
    Swallow:- The swallows go ont the first of October. They come a week before the cuckoo.
    Wild geese:- The wild geese leave in the beginning of April and go to Scotland. They come in the month of November.
    Grey plover:- The grey plover goes and comes the same time as the wild geese.
    Collected by Sheila Boland (14), Wood-of-O, Tullamore.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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