School: Creatlach (B.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)Very nice birds.
The pigeon si a bird about the same size as a plover, she makes a very rough nest of twigs and feeds on oats, wheat,barley, and turnips,
They have very strong wings and fastly and very high.
The woodcock is a bird that comes about at dusk, he flies very fast and a Fowler would want to be very fast to shoot him, he comes out at she same place each night
The woodcock feeds by the brows of drains.
The curlew is a bird of a grayish color and is a very fast to fly, she lives by the banks of the rivers.
People say that when the curlews are calling that they are calling for rain.
- Collector
- Eddie Punch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cratloemoyle, Co. Clare
