School: Áth Treasna (B.) (roll number 11236)
- Location:
- Áth Trasna, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 197
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- Name / Nesting Place / Description of Nest, Eggs, and Food.Water hen / Bank of river or a stone projecting from a bridge or among water-plants / Nest made of grass and rotten sticks thrown up by flood. Thirteen eggs white, thickly freckledRobin / Hollow in a fence or in a flower pot, old hat, or old kettle. / Leaves, moss, grass, lined with hair. Three or four eggs creamy colour dotted with brown spots. Small fish, worms, insects and flies.Wren / In a mossy bank, in a fork of a tree or in the thatch of a house. / A round ball with a small hole in the side. She lays 18 or 20 eggs coloured brown. They eat small flies. The wren is supposed to be the King of all birds.
of a house.
- Collector
- Michael Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Áth Trasna, Co. Chorcaí
