School: The Downs (roll number 8875)

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   Bird Lore

   There are a great many wild birds found in my district "namely" the thrush, the linnet, the robin, the chaffinch, the blackbird, the gold-finch, the wren, the wagtail, the snipe, the grouse, the swallow, the peasant, the patridge, the cuckoo, the waterhen, etc.
   The swallows and the cuckoo and the cornorakes migrates to the sunny lands of the south to return in early Spring next year.
   The swallows gather in clusters on housetops and telegraph wires in early September and then they go away to a warm country.
   The crow and the magpie build their nest on a high tree in a wood or a forest.
   The swallows build their nest in an old barn on a house eave.
   The robin, the thrush and the blackbird build their nests in fences.
   The blackbird builds her nest with mud, grass, moss and feathers.
   The blackbirds eggs are blue and they are spotted with white dots.
   The birds and sit on the egg three weeks or a month.

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. seanchas ainmhithe (~1,185)
         1. seanchas na n-éan (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Mc Cormack

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Cormack

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   43

   Address

   Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí