School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)
- Location:
- Cross, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Mac Niocail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0102, Page 401
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- (continued from previous page)chickens or ducks. She lays from six to eight eggs.
The partridge and snipe build their nests in the grass with no covering atall. It takes three weeks to hatch their eggs. The swan builds her nest in the rushes only in very few places are the to be found. She lays about four eggs and it takes four weeks to hatch them. They are very large about twice the size of a goose egg. The starlings nests are often found in the thatch of a house. They lay three or four eggs each. The cuckoo never builds a nest. She lays her egg in another birds nest.
The swallow builds her nest in eaves of houses.
They are made of mud which they gather and it sets like mortar. She lays from three to four eggs .
The corncrake lays her eggs in a meadow. She lays about five eggs. She hatches for three weeks.
The woodcock lays her eggs in a wood or in a small hazel tree.
The pigeon hatches three weeks and lays two or three eggs.
- Collector
- Michael Halloran
- Gender
- Male
