School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)bushes, chaff-finches build in firs, gold-finches build in deal trees, and corn-crakes build in meadows.
The cuckoos lay their eggs in hedge-sparrows nests, and suck the sparrows' eggs to make their voices clear.
All birds generally take three weeks to bring out their young.
Boys are sometimes tempted to interfere with innocent birds nests. It is said that if a boy robs a bird's nest he would get a sore on his foot.
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- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
