School: Carysfort, Arklow
- Location:
- Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: T. E. McAdoo
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0923, Page 119
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carysfort, Arklow
- XML Page 119
- XML “Birds”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A thrush is a nice song bird. She builds a nice nest of small twigs and ground moss and lines it inside with mud. She is a brown bird with a speckled. Her eggs are blue with black spots on them.A robin is a faithful bird. She builds a nest of moss and one or two feathers and lines it inside with horse and ass's hairs. The eggs are white with red speckles over them. She is a brown bird with a red breast.A pigeon is a big bird. She builds a nest of sprigs and roots. Her eggs are pure white. She builds high up in a dale or in a laurel or holly.A black bird is a common bird. She builds a nest of mud, moss,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Hannan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shelton, Co. Wicklow
